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Mexico is the 11th most populous country

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in the world with 121 million people.

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Mexico is among the worlds' 15

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largest economies and is the second

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largest economy in Latin America.

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Welcome to our animated show of history.

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This episode presents a brief

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history of Mexico.

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The earliest human artifacts in Mexico

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are chips of stone tools found near

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campfire remains in the valley of Mexico

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10,000 years ago.

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Mexico is the site of the domestication

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of maiz, tomato, and beans.

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Which produced an agricultural surplus,

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this enabled the transition from

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Paleo-Indian hunter gatherers to

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sedentary agricultural villages

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beginning around 5,000 B.C.

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In the formative era villages became more

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dense in terms of population and

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developing into chiefdoms.

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The earliest complex civilization in

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Mexico was the Olmec culture which

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flourished on the Gulf Coast from around

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1500 BC. Olmec cultural traits diffused

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through Mexico into their formative era

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cultures in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and the

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valley of Mexico in the subsequent

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preclassical period the Maya and Zapotecs

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civilizations developed complex centers

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at Calakmul and Monte Albán. Respectively

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during this period the first true

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Mesoamerican writing systems were

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developed in the EPI Olmec and the

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Zapotec cultures.

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In Central Mexico the height of the

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classic period saw the ascendancy of

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Teotihuacán which formed a military and

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commercial empire who's political

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influence stretched south into the Mayan

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area as well as North.

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After the collapse of Teotihuacan in

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600 AD. Competition ensued between several

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important political centers in central

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Mexico such as Xochil and Cholula

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During the early post classic period

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central Mexico was dominated by the

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Toltec culture.