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Timeline of Historical Events:
Burton Kirkwood, The History of Mexico

35,000 - 50,000 B.C.First peoples cross and enter Western Hemisphere.

pre-3500 BC Emergence of sustainable agriculture.

700 BC Appearance of Olmec civilization.

A.D. 200-800 Teotihuacan.

500 B.C. - A.D. 700 Monte Alban.

400 B.C. - A.D. 800 Mayan civilization.

A.D. 900 - 1200. Toltec civilization.

1400 -1521 Aztec Civilization.

1440 -1468 Moctezuma I.

1492 Arrival of Spanish explorers in Western Hemisphere.


*( Writers notes: The Solutrians migrated from France 19,000 years ago and landed in the East Coast of North Americas near North Carolina. The Clovis are dated in Texas 12,000 years ago ).

From the above the Mayans predated the Aztecs. The Aztecs are generally speakers of Nauatil the so called native language of the Reconquistas aspiring to capture their "mythical" ancestral home land. The Aztecs lived around the lake where modern day Mexico city is located, known as Meso America. They were generally outcasts, bellicose, war like and mostly shunned by other inhabitants. They practiced human sacrifices to their Gods. It was the Mayans who used heiroglyphs *( A type of pictorial writing ) , in their pyramids. Those heiroglyphs were first created by the Olmecs. The Mayans descendants live in the Yucatan and do not claim the Southwest. They rebelled and are not under control of the Mexican Government. Presently the "Indian" population of Mexico is about 5%. In the 1800's the Spaniards had 18 categories of mixed breed Mexicans.

At the time of the Aztec civilization 1400-1521 there were well established and known indigenous other tribes living in what is now the American Southwest.

Mexico did not gain it's independence until 1821. Prior to that it was the Spanish who created missions and haciendas in the Southwest, enslaving the indigenous Indians. The Mexican Empire was established in 1822, went to war with Texas in 1835 and the US - Mexican war occurred in 1846 -1848. In 1862 the French invaded Mexico and held it until 1867.

The USA purchased California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, part of Texas, and Colorado from Mexico in two separate land deals and it is confirmed by treaty.