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  1. Mexico City
    Mexico City was in many ways the quintessential city of the early modern period. While many cities in the Valley of Mexico had existed for several centuries prior to the arrival of the Spaniards in 1519, Mexico City was relatively young, having been founded in 1325. It was originally a swampy safe haven for the Mexica people, popularly known as the Aztecs. Locating in the middle of the lake that filled the Valley of Mexico, the Mexica used land-reclamation techniques to convert this swampy area into a city of nearly a quarter million inhabitants by the time of the conquest. They called their city Tenochtitlán. Over the course of time a twin city, Tlatelolco, developed to the north and was home of the merchants who served as the commercial "glue" of the Mexica empire.
  2. Casas -- De Las Casas
    A biography, or rather panegyric, of Las Casas has been weritten by QUINTANA in Vidas de Españoles célebres (Madrid, 1807). See ...: YCAZBALCETA, Documentos para la Historia de México (Mexico, 1866), II, and Bibliografía Méxicana del Siglo XVI (Mexico, 1886). Passing over the innumerable more or less correct sketches and mentions of Las Casas in modern works, the sources may be noted which date from the lifetime of the celebrated Dominican. GOMARA, Historia general de las Indias (Saragossa, 1522; Medina del Campo, 1553; Antwerp, 1554; Saragossa, 1555). A most important but partial source is OVIEDO, Historia general y natural de las Indias (Madrid, 1850). From the beginning of the seventeenth century there is HERRERA, Historia de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y Tierra firme del Marocéano (Madrid, 1601-15; Antwerp, 1728; Madrid, 1726-30).
  3. Colonial Mexico -- Native Americans
    An important aspect of the early colonial economy of Mexico was the exploitation of Native Americans. Although thousands of Native Americans were killed during the Spanish conquest, they were still the great majority of inhabitants and inevitably became the laboring class. Native Americans performed much of the farming, mining, and ranching work in the colony. Although Spain had decreed that the Native Americans were free and entitled to wages, they were often treated little better than slaves. Their plight was initially the result of the encomienda system, by which European settlers, explorers, and soldiers were granted access to Native American labor to work their large land holdings.
  4. Mexico City -- Museums
    Mexico City has numerous museums dedicated to modern and contemporary art. The Museo Tamayo was opened in the mid-1980's to house the collection of international contemporary art donated by famed Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. The Museo de Arte Moderno is a repository of Mexican artists from the 20th century, and ... regularly hosts temporary exhibits of international modern art. In southern Mexico City, the Museo Carrillo Gil showcases avant-garde artists. The Museo Soumaya, named after the wife of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, has the largest private collection of Rodin sculptures outside Paris. La Colección Jumex is a museum housed on the grounds of the Jumex juice company in the northern industrial suburb of Ecatepec.
  5. Vicente Fernandez -- New Mexico
    Las Vegas - Mexican recording legend Vicente Fernandez held a press conference recently to announce his plans for opening a mariachi-themed casino in Las Vegas. Designed to cash in on the immense popularity of such large scale theme casinos as "New York, New York," Fernandez said he expects to open his casino, which will be called "Guadalajara, Guadalajara," by the end of the year.
  6. Tula -- City
    Tula was the capital of the Toltec civilization, established around 900AD. In the 9th and10th centuries this city was the largest in central Mexico, peaking with a population of 35,000. The city rose to power after the collapse of Teotihuacán to take control of the Valley of Mexico.
  7. Ana Gabriel
    Simplemente Amigos: Homenaje a Ana Gabriel is Myriam's sixth studio album, released in 2007. In this album Myriam pays tribute to one of Mexico's most famous female singers, Ana Gabriel by singing 12 of her biggest hits. The first single off of the album is Simplemente Amigos.The album is certificated as gold status by selling more than 50,000 copies but according to a report form EMI TELEVISA MUSIC the album sold 300,000 copies in 5 hours of being available being triple platinum.
  8. Mexican History
    Mexican history boast of a long and advaanced civilizations that make most European civilizations seem primitive. The first inhabitants were said to have arrived at about 2000B.C. with the Mayan Empire being constructed in about the 12th century. However within the last two centuries Mexico has had relitively little success, constent victims of imperialist powers the culture has suffered agreat deal. The largest blow occuring when America annexed California by force. This last act of aggression would affect the Mexican economy and social structure for years, if not forever.
  9. Lola Flores
    Lola Flores, a dark-haired, deep-bosomed Spanish flamenco dancer with a throaty voice and glittering black eyes, is the current rage of Mexico City. Getting a table for her 2 a.m. show at the fashionable, mirror-ceilinged Club Capri requires luck and pull plus about 150 pesos ($16.40) per person cover charge, a record price for a Mexico City night spot. At the Iris Theater, where Lola dances before her nightclub show, tickets are priced at 15 pesos, but scalpers get as much as 50.
  10. Ricardo Arjona -- Songs
    Guatemalan singer/songwriter Ricardo Arjona is one of the more respected Latin artists, mostly for his social conscience and his integrity in writing and performing songs. Born in Antigua, he was interested in music from an early age but later decide
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