LINGUIST 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Huitzilopochtli, Lacandon Jungle, Basalt
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The desert and the jungles: much of the country is arid north, north. In the deserts of sonora and chihuahua for years it has rained very little: in spite of this (a pesar de) there are beautiful (preciosos) wild flowers cacti, southeast, rainforests found. The climate: north= arid and hot, south= tropical, plateau= temperate climate, however, sharp temperature differences and large changes between day and night. History of mexico: the mexico of our day was created from a fusion of cultures that resulted from the. Spanish encounter with the advanced civilizations of mesoamerica: this merging began when hernan cortes arrived in 1520. But the history of this great republic goes back (remonta) many centuries before 1520. The pre-columbian era: mexico"s first inhabitants came to mexico from the north during the stone age , at first they were hunter-gatherers (cazadores-recolectores, later they learned (aprendieron) how to cultivate corn.