Mexican Independence

what's going on everybody this is Professor Huang gun boy hanging out with you in this discussion module we're gonna go ahead and start to move from the Spanish colonial era to start to examine the period of Mexican independence from 1810 to 1821 and even consider some of the aftermath and connect me into today this is some

central questions for you to consider is thinking about to what extent the impact of 300 years of Spanish colonialism has left in Mexico what's the legacy that's been left as a result of Spanish colonialism as a result of 300 years of colonization how has it influenced our and perhaps you can even think about how

its influenced your personal views on race and perhaps your family another question to consider is what were sort of the root conditions that led to the Mexican Independence of the 1810 and even after 1810 was my ego really free as a result of the Mexican independence movement so we're gonna start to unpack

and look at some of that complexity in this discussion module as well as in the readings that you've been looking at so I want to begin by having us go back and remember the impact of 300 years of Spanish colonization so in other words ask yourself how is it that the Spanish for example arriving in 1519 and

capturing Mexico City by or formula now to known as Mexico City back then was known as Tenochtitlan how did they capture the center of power and then end up ruling and dominating for practically 300 years or were the methods the mechanisms and the ways in which they maintained their domination over the native indigenous and mixed-race people

well it would help if we sort of go back and think about naming some of the most salient examples and first of course we know that in the initial years there was an extreme period of violence right there's just no way to describe the level of violence that was used other than by describing it as an act of