Mexico City marks 700 years since its founding by Indigenous people
Mexico CITY (AP) – Mexico City marks its foundation’s 700th anniversary with a series of publicly open events on Saturday, including the artistic performances of the city. Native origins.
The artists in local clothes revived the establishment of the Aztec capital before the country’s best officials. Mexico City’s main square. Later, hundreds of dancers dressed in traditional clothes, feather heads, drums and ankle rattles, performed sacred dances to connect with nature.
His anniversary commemorates the establishment of Tenochtitlan, the capital of Mexico, a group, also known as the Aztecs who settled in the Mexican Valley in 1325.
As recorded by early Spanish chronicizers, the Mexican elderly talked about a divine sign from Huitzilopochtli, the Boss’s god Huitzilopochtli: a eagle on a cactus indicates where to settle. This place was the center of Tenochtitlan, Aztec civilization and today’s place of Mexico City.
This symbol was later recorded to Mendoza Codex, which includes the historical accounts of the Aztec Empire. He took part in the center of Mexican identity and appeared in the National Flag today.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said, “Mexico was not born with the arrival of the Spaniards, Mexico was born much earlier with great civilizations,” he said.
Tenochtitlan began as a village on an island in a lake floating with volcanic peaks. However, historians say that many other details falling into history are largely based on legends and that the definitive date of establishment is not known.
According to Spanish chronic and Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, when the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, they were afraid of a city full of palaces, bridges, canals and moving trade.
The Historical Investigation Institute, an expert in Tenochtitlan, historian Miguel Pastrana, Mexican National Autonomic University, said the weekend festivals are “political and civilian ve and did not reflect the latest historical research.
Historical record describes Mexico as people who emigrated from a place called Aztlan, as a so -called full position. They knew how to fish, to collect water plants and to hunt birds and to build a dam, and they tried to settle in several places before coming to the Mexican Valley.
The main island in the lake was already filled by the people of Tepeneca, but they allowed Mexico to settle there for tribute payments and other services.
Gradually, Mexico’s power has grown. They were effective in establishing alliances with strong fighters and commercial prosperous and other peoples.
Tenochtitlan became a major city in the center of an empire until the Spaniards conquered in 1521.
