According to Thomas Benjamin in La Revolucion, history is much more than past events and the facts that describe them. It is also a collective memory and the way some reminiscences are passed on from generation to generation while others get lost or forgotten. Benjamin shows that people ca...

Mexico is our neighbor to the south. The United States was once part of Mexico. A country is a place for tourism and vacations for us, but for Mexicans, it is home. Near the year 7000 B.C., Indians learned to grow plants for food. In time they were able to settle in villages. Those villages grew int...

Was the fall of the Aztec Empire inevitable? When Hernando Cortez and his conquistadors landed on the shores of Mexico, they had no idea what they were going to face. They set out searching for gold, and what they found was an advanced civilization of people with an incredibly beautiful city. Th...

BENITO JUAREZ There were many websites that popped up while researching Benito Juarez on line. They were very interesting because most of what they had to say was very little. However, there was a lot of information on the things that are named after Juarez, like schools, airports, and stree...

History Around the early 13th century the Aztecs left their homes in Atzlan and started wandering through the Valley of Mexico. Living as mostly gathers in a migratory lifesyle, the Aztecs struggled to survive. They were eventually enslaved by another tribe. The Aztecs were, at this time, poor ...

World History 3, period 5 June 6, 2000 There was a huge revolution in the country of Mexico that started in the year 1910, led by Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico in 1910. In the 1860's Diaz was important to Mexican politics and then was elected president in 1877. Diaz said that he wo...

On February 8, 1517 Francisco de Cordoba set sail from Cuba with 110 ships full of men to investigate the new world in search of riches and glory. Twenty-one days after their departure Cordoba's men found a small Mayan town. The natives fought a brief but bloody battle with the Spaniards and were de...

"Azucar" or sugar in English, is a Spanish metaphor which means that you should live a sweet way your life. Usually this is said when people is complaining or overworking, or even if you are happy at a party or dancing, people will say Azucar as a way to remind you that life is beautiful and you sho...