MESOAMERICAN MEXICO: FROM THE OLMECS TO THE AZTECS ON THE EVE OF TENOCHTITLAN'S FALL

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this course examines the history of the different peoples of pre-Columbian Mexico from the emerge of the Olmec Civilization in 1500 B.C. to the civil wars between the different Mesoamerican groups that brought the eventual demise of the Acolhua-Mexica-Tepaneca alliance (Aztec Empire) in the summer of 1521 C.E. and facilitated the Spanish conquest. We will learn about the diversity of the different groups that inhabited what is Mexico today. This course counts towards the Core Requirements (Premodern Courses and Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East Courses) for the HIST major; the requirements (Premodern Courses and Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East Courses) for the HISM minor; the electives requirement for the LALX major; and the electives requirement for the LALM minor.