RETRACING MEXICAN ANCESTRYRETRACING MEXICAN ANCESTRY
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Archaic Period: as early as 20,000 BC
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Pre-Classic/Formative Period: 3500 B.C. - 300 A.D.
THE OLMECS
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Classical Period: 300 A.D. - 900 A.D.
THE MAYANS
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Post-Classical Period: 900 A.D. - 1521 A.D.
THE AZTECS
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1521
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New Spain: 1521- 1800s
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New Spain: 1521- 1800s
CASTE SYSTEM
Peninsulares/Gauchapines European-born Whites
Colonial-born Whites
Mixed Blood (Native/Spanish)
Pure Indigenous
Africans
Criollos
Mestizos
Indians
Slaves
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Mexican Independence: 1821
Plan de Iguala
Plan of the Three Guarantees
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