Mexico is the 11th most populous country

in the world with 121 million people.

Mexico is among the worlds' 15

largest economies and is the second

largest economy in Latin America.

Welcome to our animated show of history.

This episode presents a brief

history of Mexico.

The earliest human artifacts in Mexico

are chips of stone tools found near

campfire remains in the valley of Mexico

10,000 years ago.

Mexico is the site of the domestication

of maiz, tomato, and beans.

Which produced an agricultural surplus,

this enabled the transition from

Paleo-Indian hunter gatherers to

sedentary agricultural villages

beginning around 5,000 B.C.

In the formative era villages became more

dense in terms of population and

developing into chiefdoms.

The earliest complex civilization in

Mexico was the Olmec culture which

flourished on the Gulf Coast from around

1500 BC. Olmec cultural traits diffused

through Mexico into their formative era

cultures in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and the

valley of Mexico in the subsequent

preclassical period the Maya and Zapotecs

civilizations developed complex centers

at Calakmul and Monte Albán. Respectively

during this period the first true

Mesoamerican writing systems were

developed in the EPI Olmec and the

Zapotec cultures.

In Central Mexico the height of the

classic period saw the ascendancy of

Teotihuacán which formed a military and

commercial empire who's political

influence stretched south into the Mayan

area as well as North.

After the collapse of Teotihuacan in

600 AD. Competition ensued between several

important political centers in central

Mexico such as Xochil and Cholula

During the early post classic period

central Mexico was dominated by the

Toltec culture.