Mexico: The History And History Of Mexico

Mexico. One of the most historic countries you can be in and has many interesting facts that have influenced the country it is today. Judging by Mexico’s history, the people of Mexico have had a lot of power and influence on Mexico. Mexico has a very unique history and a long ancient one.

Mexico’s history began with the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire was a powerful and wealthy empire. The Aztecs were the ones who adopted human sacrifices from other cultures and believed the universe would end and the sun would stop moving without human blood. Many of their statues of gods sticking out their tongues, which may be a sacred gesture, signifies their thirst for blood.

During sacrifices, five priests would sometimes paint their faces with different colors, and hold the sacrifice by its arms and legs. The heart was cut out of the sacrifice and burned it on a fire in the temple. Shells and stones on the Aztec’s ritual blades were symbols of the faces of their gods for which sacrificed hearts were intended. They would sacrifice 10,000 to 50,000 victims a year. The Aztecs also played a ritual ball game, called Hachtli, in which the losers had to be sacrificed to the gods.

The Aztec language, Nahuatl, had a word that passed into English like tomatoes (tomatl), chocolate (chocolatl), and avocadoes (ahuactl). Mexico introduced chocolate, corn, and chilies to the world. But when Spain went over to Mexico, the Aztecs thought they were returning gods so the gave them the drink of the gods, hot chocolate. Then the Spanish conquered Mexico in 1519-1521 and ruled Mexico as the New Spain for 300 years until September 16, 1810 when the Mexicans revolted and won independence in 1821.

The Mexican flag has three vertical stripes and a symbol in the middle...

... middle of paper ...

...ation of Pancho Villa was on July 20th of 1923. Pancho Villa, the bandit warlord, was shot and survived the Mexican Revolution and had been living in a ranch until he died.

September 16th of 1810 was a very important day. It was the Cry of Dolores or Mexico’s Independence Day. Father Miguel Hidalgo announced that he was taking up arms against the Spanish and invited his congregation to join him. His army went from hundreds to thousands. “Cry of Dolores” marks Mexico’s Independence Day.

Overall, Mexico has had many important people and events that have influenced what it is today. Mexico has had some struggles and still has some but they find ways to sort it out. Even though looking through their history, it’s been mainly through battle. But Mexico has had many brave people who have fought for their country and those people have made Mexico the way it is.