Visuals to accompany speech RETRACING MEXICAN ANCESTRY Speech length: 5 to 7 minutes

1. RETRACING MEXICAN ANCESTRY

2. Images Source www.tcnj.edu Archaic Period: as early as 20,000 BC

3. Images Source www.lib.uci.edu Pre-Classic/Formative Period: 3500 B.C. - 300 A.D. THE OLMECS

4. Images Source www.lib.uci.edu Classical Period: 300 A.D. - 900 A.D. THE MAYANS

5. Images Source www.lib.uci.edu Post-Classical Period: 900 A.D. - 1521 A.D. THE AZTECS

6. Images Source www.lib.uci.edu 1521

7. Images Source digital.lib.lehigh.edu New Spain: 1521- 1800s

8. Source MrDonn.org New Spain: 1521- 1800s CASTE SYSTEM Peninsulares/Gauchapines European-born Whites Colonial-born Whites Mixed Blood (Native/Spanish) Pure Indigenous Africans Criollos Mestizos Indians Slaves

9. Source http://www.fotw.net/flags/ Mexican Independence: 1821 Plan de Iguala Plan of the Three Guarantees

10. Images Source http://www.lumika.org/mexico_people.htm