Explanation:
The history of New Mexico is based on archaeological evidence, attesting to varying cultures of humans occupying the area of New Mexico since approximately 9200 BCE, and written records. The earliest peoples had migrated from northern areas of North America after leaving Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge. Artifacts and architecture demonstrate ancient complex cultures in this region.
The first written records of the region were made by the Spanish conquistadors, who encountered Native American pueblos when they explored the area in the 16th century. Since that time, the Spanish Empire, Mexico, and the United States (since 1848) have claimed control of the area.
The area was governed as New Mexico Territory until 1912, when it was admitted as a state. The relatively isolated state had an economy dependent on mining. Its residents and government suffered from a reputation for corruption and extreme traditionalism. New Mexico introduced the atomic age in 1945, as the first nuclear weapons were developed by the federal government in the research center it established at Los Alamos. Ethnically the state has historically included Native American, Hispanic and Anglo elements in earlier years.
Contents
1Native American settlements
2Pueblos
3Athabaskans-Apachean
4Colonial period
4.1Spanish exploration and colonization
5Pueblo Revolt of 1680
6Spanish relations with nomadic Indians
6.1Comancheria
7U.S. exploration
8Mexican territory
8.1Revolution and Mexican Independence
8.2Federalist stage
8.3Centralist stage and collapse
8.4Texas
9United States control
9.1Mexican–American War
9.2Provisional government
9.3Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
9.4American Territory
9.4.1Media
9.4.2Civil War
9.4.3Indians
9.4.4The new legal system and the legal profession
9.4.5Las Gorras Blancas
9.4.6Gilded Age
10Statehood
10.1Artists and writers
10.2Nuevomexicanos
10.3New arrivals
10.4Women's suffrage
10.5World War II
10.6Environmentalism
11See also
12References
13Further reading
13.1Surveys
13.2Special studies
13.3Primary sources