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2500 BCE
olmeca culture
The Olmec culture (men of the Country of the Hule) occupied an area of about 18,000 km2 located in the present Mexican States of Tabasco and Veracruz. The country, warm, humid, marshy and full of forests, offers few conditions for human development -
900 BCE
tolteca culture
The toltecas reached their apogee during the Postclassic, between the years 900 d. C. and 1200 d. C. They settled in Tula, in the present state of Hidalgo. They dominated great part of the center of Mexico, the coasts of Gulf of Mexico, part of the Bajío (Querétaro, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes and Jalisco) and the Soconusco area, between what today is Chiapas and Guatemala -
Jan 15, 1325
The triple alliance and the independent lordships
In the Altiplano, at the end of the Postclassic the last chapter of the political history of the pre-Hispanic world was given, to be transformed by reason of the arrival of the Spaniards.
After a long pilgrimage begun in Aztlán, the Mexicas settled in Tenochtitlan in 1325. -
mixteca culture
The Mixteca Culture, a town that lived in Southeast Mexico, has preserved a unique contingent of illustrated codices from its cultural set, which are certainly from pre-Hispanic codices, containing genealogical and historical information
