Genealogías del presente

La ciudad de Ur, donde tuvo asiento una gran cultura, ha sido objeto de numerosas exploraciones e investigaciones, de las cuales la más importante por sus resultados extraordinarios ha sido la que dirigió, entre 1922 y 1929, precisamente sir C. Leonard Woolley, quien también realizó estudios arqueológicos en Nubia y Cachemira.

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Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.

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.