All Questions
3 questions
9
votes
1
answer
309
views
Did New Mexicans under Spain regard themselves as Mexican?
Mexico, in its original sense, is the homeland of the Mexica (Aztec) people and its principal city. The sense of the name broadened, presumably as people in the metropole spoke broadly about it, and ...
user18968
14
votes
3
answers
1k
views
Who decided on the name "Mexico"?
New Spain's independence struggle led to adopting the national identity of "México", the name of its major city and the Mexica society there. In referring to a specific indigenous group, Mexico seems ...
user18968
2
votes
1
answer
187
views
What is the back story behind the Baja California towns of "Purgatorio" and "Providencia"?
I'm reading a book on Mexican history, and noticed in a map that there are two towns or cities next to each other in Baja California, one named Purgatorio (purgatory) and the other Providencia (...
