Introduction: This paper was carried out by a rigorous investigation of a cultural phenomenon, the information was obtained from different sources and it has different points of view, and the question of which the investigation is about:
Why in Mexico the social classes are so uneven and marked?
The following method to find the answer is the historical evolution of social classes in Mexico and how did it evolve into where they are now.
Chapter 1
The social classes before the colonization in the Americas
The Aztecs laws
Before the colonization had ever occurred in Mexico, different civilizations existed, I am going to explain the most important of these civilizations.
The Aztecs followed a strict social hierarchy in which individuals were
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The phenomenon that you first notice in this period is linking large parts of the territory for some noble and privileged families. (George M. McBride 1923)
This was followed by wars of the different political leaders to get the power of Mexico, the man who could bring some order to the country was the president Porfirio Diaz.
The name of this phenomenon was the haciendas, these properties seldom contains less than 2,500 acres, few of these estates have less than a hundred, while many of them have as many as a thousand inhabitants. They include all the customary accessories of an independent community, such as a church, a store, a post office, a burying ground, and sometimes a school or hospital. They had based the production of the agriculture, it were formed by the owner and his family, followed the manager, the priest, the trusted employees and for last the laborers , in most parts of Mexico, are of Indian blood or are mestizos in whom the Indian element