MEXICO 3113 BCE – 2026 CE by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) 3113 BCE – 1521 CE: MEXICO’S CIVILIZATIONS BEGAN, GREW, AND DEGENERATED INTO TERROR REGIMES 3113 BCE (Maya Long Count base date) – Sacred calendrical reckoning anchors Mesoamerican timekeeping. 1500–400 BCE – Olmec ceremonial centers flourish along the Gulf Coast. 100 BCE–550 CE …
Beyond the Keyhole of Our Shared Reality By Janet Kira Lessin Humanity is stepping into a wider field of awareness. For centuries, our understanding of existence developed through a narrow lens shaped by survival, competition, and struggle. That perspective fostered resilience and ingenuity, and it also reached the natural limits of its usefulness. A broader …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) The U.S. theft of Northern Mexico was not a “westward movement”; it was an engineered expansion. The United States provoked a border clash, framed it as self-defense, and converted war into continental acquisition. The result was a republic stretched from Atlantic to Pacific—secured with artillery, diplomacy, debt, and …
Part I: June 25, 2009 — THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED by Janet Lessin,* CEO, World Peace Association In this post, we explore how recurring archetypes of empire — visible across ancient civilizations — continue to influence modern political systems. This is not partisan commentary. It’s a structural analysis. We examine Centralization of authority, Technocratic governance, Psychological …
Partnership vs Domination after the Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521–1820s) By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) The fall of Tenochtitlan did not end the domination of the many by the few in Mexico. Murderous Spanish bosses and priests replaced the even more murderous Aztec mass sacrifices. The Spanish imposed two other burdens on the poor; …
THE FALL OF TENOCHTITLAN: ALLIANCE, DISEASE, AND REGIME REPLACEMENT What followed the arrival of Spanish Soldier Hernán CORTÉS in 1519 was not a duel between Europe and Mesoamerica, nor the triumph of a handful of Spaniards over a mighty empire. It was, as historian Stefan Rinke emphasizes, a multilateral civil war inside central Mexico, accelerated …
IN PREP; VIEW LATER By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) After 1400, the Mexica (Aztecs) inherited fragments of the Earlier, Mayan/Anunnaki-directed worship of Sumerian Lords with new, Tolan names they had learned as laborers in Teotihuacan. From these fragments, the Aztecs developed their own ideology and social system at Tenochtitlan. Centuries after Thoth / …
Part 1 of MEXICO, CROSSROAD OF CULTURES Overview of Series Mexico’s deep history did not unfold as a simple rise and fall of isolated cultures. It emerged instead as a long, cumulative experiment in human cooperation, engineering, astronomy, and power—repeatedly reshaped by outside incursions, internal hierarchies, ecological limits, and visionary bursts of collective intelligence. From …
MEXICO TIMELINE By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) MEXICO TIME CHART 1. 3000–1500 BCE Early agricultural societies, maize domestication, and village cooperation 2. 1200–400 BCE Olmec horizon; monumental stone, shared iconography, early coordination systems 3. 100 BCE – 550 CE …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) 4,000-1492: PRE-COLUMBIAN CUBA DIVERSE PARTNERSHIP-ORIENTED CARIBBEAN INDIANS PEOPLED CUBA Long before Spanish ships landed in 1492, the island was home to diverse Indigenous peoples whose ways of life were rooted in local ecology, kinship, and cooperative subsistence rather than domination hierarchies. Earliest inhabitants / Archaic cultures (c. 4000 …
