Emiliano Zapata Thesis

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Emiliano Zapata This report is on a major Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. According to wikipedia.com Emiliano Zapata Salazar was born August 8th, 1879 and died April 10th, 1919. Zapata was born to Gabriel Zapata a peasant who trained and sold horses, in a village of Anenecuilco. Zapata’s family were mestizos, being of mixed Nahua and Spanish ancestry. Zapata’s father died when he turned 17, so Zapata had to care for his family at such a young age. At that time, Mexico was ruled by a dictator, Porfirio Diaz, who had seized power in 1876. The social system in that time was a sort of proto capitalist federal system, with haciendas and large estates that controlled most of the land. Zapata came from a middle class family

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