[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico is the 11th most populous country Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world with 121 million people. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico is among the worlds' 15 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,largest economies and is the second Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,largest economy in Latin America. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to our animated show of history. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This episode presents a brief Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,history of Mexico. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The earliest human artifacts in Mexico Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are chips of stone tools found near Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,campfire remains in the valley of Mexico Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10,000 years ago. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico is the site of the domestication Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of maiz, tomato, and beans. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which produced an agricultural surplus, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this enabled the transition from Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paleo-Indian hunter gatherers to Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sedentary agricultural villages Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning around 5,000 B.C. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the formative era villages became more Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dense in terms of population and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,developing into chiefdoms. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The earliest complex civilization in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico was the Olmec culture which Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flourished on the Gulf Coast from around Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1500 BC. Olmec cultural traits diffused Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through Mexico into their formative era Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultures in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,valley of Mexico in the subsequent Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preclassical period the Maya and Zapotecs Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civilizations developed complex centers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Calakmul and Monte Albán. Respectively Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during this period the first true Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mesoamerican writing systems were Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,developed in the EPI Olmec and the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zapotec cultures. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Central Mexico the height of the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,classic period saw the ascendancy of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teotihuacán which formed a military and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commercial empire who's political Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influence stretched south into the Mayan Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,area as well as North. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the collapse of Teotihuacan in Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,600 AD. Competition ensued between several Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important political centers in central Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexico such as Xochil and Cholula Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the early post classic period Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,central Mexico was dominated by the Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Toltec culture.