Mexico started as a far wealthier nation than the US

history channel documentary For each situation, the tenants of the southwestern states - Indians or White pioneers - defied Spanish and afterward Mexican standard. They later joined the US essentially to enhance their resistances against Mexico. The US "stole" none of it. Mexico started as a far wealthier nation than the US, with milder climate, limitless tracts of arable area, gigantic mineral riches, and a propelled local human progress. It ought to have advanced relentlessly to wind up one of the wealthier nations on Earth. Yet, what was the deal?

To begin with, the Chichimen/Aztecs: an abolute military and religious oppression, with the expansion of human flesh consumption, does not make a sound society. The quantity of uprisings among the Toltec underclass, in addition to their readiness to join the armed force of an outside vanquisher, indicates exactly how much the overall public abhorred their lords. The incredible Malinche, the local slave-young lady who got to be Cortez' fancy woman and helped him crush the Aztecs, was truth be told not "double-crossing her own kin"; she was a Toltec, and had justifiable reason motivation to detest the Aztecs. The need of such bad form, and of concealing their expectations from the Aztec administering class, made the general population by and large undercover and routinely criminal.