Lands and Peoples, Vol. 7: The World in Color (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lands and Peoples, Vol. 7: The World in ColorThe Republic of Mexico lies half in the tropics, and its climate varies amaz ingly, from the dry cactus plains along the Rio Grande to the rank jungles on. The Guatemalan border. Though a very mountainous country, it is sur prisingly fertile, and can produce crops as different as wheat and rubber. No land is more splendidly endowed with mineral wealth. Cortés and his Spanish adventurers came to Mexico for gold, they found plenty of it, and silver in far greater abundance. To-day.the fortune-hunters drill for Oil along the Gulf of México, and often acquire wealth only less fabulous than that of the Aztecs whom Cortés despoiled. As a republic México is not much more than a hundred years old, and there are still serious problems to be solved before the Indian and Spanish elements of her population can be welded into a true democracy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.