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Mexican culture was born in 1325, 682 years ago, in what now is the center of the Federal District [Mexico City], where the city Tenochtitlan rose. This culture was oppressed with the arrival of the Spanish colonizers in 1521, subdued and decimated by new European illnesses, military, and religious contrast.In the Colony there were prohibitions against languages, constumes, dances, their form of dressing. Nonetheless the indigenous groups survived with these traditions in a clandestine manner.With there drums prohibited, they played their music on mandolins, small guitars, in those rhythms, in these songs, their culture survived. Calpulli is the name they gave their schools, and the name today for groups that preserve knowledge of this culture.Their language is Nahuatl, which emphasizes the poetry, the architecture, the mathematics, among other amazing things, like the building of a city of more than 100,000 people on a lake. Their “gods” have mythical legends like the greek, and these gods are the water, the wind, the fire and the land. The groups of dancers give tribute to this history, as do the groups studying Mexican culture, which have grown in the last century in Mexico, and throughout the world.—Espa
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