Mexican History 1 Timeline

  • Theory of Africa
    30,000 BCE

    Theory of Africa

    Humans evolved on Africa, and after that, they started to migrate throughout the different continents
  • Solutrean Theory
    21,000 BCE

    Solutrean Theory

    It states that a culture in Europe named the Solutrean, crossed the continent following and ice pack and arrived to North America by boat
  • Land Bridge Theory
    18,000 BCE

    Land Bridge Theory

    It states that humans crossed through Russia to Alaska, using an ice bridge that formed on the last Ice Age, named the Strait of Bering
  • Coastal Migration Theory
    16,000 BCE

    Coastal Migration Theory

    It states that humans arrived to America using the Paicific Coasts, boats and resources
  • Positivist School

    Positivist School

    Created by Saint-Simon, Augusto Comte and John Stuart Mill it believes that studying history using the scientific method is the most efficient way of interpretating it.
    Also using the three stages of Comte's Law:
    Theological state: Everything is explained by Gods
    Metaphysical State: Explained by abstract reasoning
    Positivist State: Using the Scientific Method
  • Marxist School

    Marxist School

    Carls Marx, Friedrich Engels
    History is shaped by materialistic conditions and the motor of history is the fights between social classes
  • Historicist School

    Historicist School

    Created by Benedetto Croce and Wilhelm Dilthley, it believes more on historical interpretation instead of scientific data. Each event is unique and influenced by cultural and social circumstances.
  • Annales School

    Annales School

    Prioritizes the social, economics, and cultural factors. broad history beyond politics, Longue durée, examines the long term relation that made a historical fact possible, uses interdisciplinary approaches
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    First generation Annales School

    March Bloch, Lucien Febure
    Interdisiciplinary approaches
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    Second Generation Annales School

    Long Term relations and events
  • Microhistory on Mexico

    Thanks to Luis Gonzáles y Gonzales Mexico accepted the influence of the Annales School to investigate cultural, and social aspects of the common life
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    Third generation

    Cultural history and microhistorical events