The international geography . w4th Huitzilopochtli, the Mexican Godof War. That Mexica and Azteca (the people from Aztlan, the land ofthe white heron ) define the same people—a people migrating in from thenorth—admits of. no doubt; hence, we may assume that Mexicans andAztecs (including the Toltecs, who appear to have been only Mexicansfrom the region about Tula, and not an earlier independent migratoryhorde) represent in part the people who were ruled by the various kingsand monarchs styled Motecuzoma, Moctezuma or T^Iontezuma. To what period of construction belong the monumental ruins that a
The international geography . w4th Huitzilopochtli, the Mexican Godof War. That Mexica and Azteca (the people from Aztlan, the land ofthe white heron ) define the same people—a people migrating in from thenorth—admits of. no doubt; hence, we may assume that Mexicans andAztecs (including the Toltecs, who appear to have been only Mexicansfrom the region about Tula, and not an earlier independent migratoryhorde) represent in part the people who were ruled by the various kingsand monarchs styled Motecuzoma, Moctezuma or T^Iontezuma. To what period of construction belong the monumental ruins that arescattered through southern Mexico—in Uxmal and Chichen-Itza in Yucatan,of Palenque in the State of Chiapas, or of Mitla in the State of Oaxaca—still remains to be determined, although recent research does not seemto demand an antiquity exceeding 700 to 1,000 years. History and Government.—When conquered by Cortez in 1521Mexico was called the Province of New Spain : it rem lined a51 780 The International Geography. dependency of the Spanish crown for precisely three centuries, and wasruled successively by Governors, Audencias, and Viceroys. On September27, 1821, the Spanish power in Mexico finally terminated, after a struggleof eleven years. An Empire was proclaimed early in 1822 ; but this wasfollowed by the proclamation of a RepublicanConstitution in 1824. A generally stormy periodled up to the war with the United States (April,1846, to September, 1847). After some deter-mined resistance on the part of the Mexicans,Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, as the represen-tative of Napoleon III. of France, was placed uponFIG ^^ Flag. ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ Mexico in 1864, and thus was consti-tuted the second Empire. After the fall of the empire and the execution ofthe emperor in 1867 the Republic was re-established and became is now organised as a Federal Republic, composed of twenty-seven States, two territories, and one federal district, whose political
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