Morir en las grandes pestes

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

"Fue hacia fines de 1826 cuando el ministro de la guerra, Gómez Pedraza, pudo hacer maniobrar, en la plaza de armas de México, el primer batallón completamente armado y equipado según el gusto moderno o el modelo francés". Así califica Claudio Linati, en su libro Costumes Civils, Militaires et Religieux du Mexique, la organización del ejército a cinco años del nacimiento de México, como país independiente. Esa observación autoriza preguntar sobre el papel que jugó francés" -hombres, ideas, mercancías y capitales- en la modernización del país, y a indagar su contribución en...

Which are the views of the Cuban history of those who did not see the revolutionary process? Based on strict survivorship, these are revealed as passionate gaps of different past aspects.