SOSC 1733 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spanish Empire, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Maquiladora
27 Sep 2018
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The city was a strong military and economic centre and residents had a sophisticated system of food production, typically on water: there were also paved streets, freshwater systems and viable market economies in. Tenochtitlan prior to the arrival of the spanish. Colonization and cities: new cities were developed by the spanish to carry out administrative, economic and political functions, urban development expanded northwards and toward the gulf of nexico during the 300 years of colonial rule. In many regions in mexico, colonial cities coincided almost exactly with pre-existing indigenous settlements. In other regions old indigenous towns co-existed with new spanish settlements: example include the central parts as well as the yucatan where had mayan group had formed. The central region: the central region played a historically significant role in the formation of subsequent urban agglomerations of the spanish, tenochtitlan was renamed mexico city and became of the capital of the spanish empire.
