Mexico (Differently)

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States is a federal republic in the southernmost portion of North America. It is bordered to the north west by the United States; the north east by the Confederate States;to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi) With an estimated population of over 130 million people the country is the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Guaymas, and Tijuana.

Pre-Columbian Mexico dates to about 8000 BC and is identified as one of five cradles of civilization and was home to many advanced Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Maya, and Aztec before first contact with Europeans. In 1521, the Spanish Empire conquered and colonized the territory from its politically powerful base in Mexico-Tenochtitlan (part of Mexico City), which was administered as the viceroyalty of New Spain. Three centuries later, the territory became a nation state following its recognition in 1821 after the colony's Mexican War of Independence. The post-independence period was tumultuous, characterized by economic inequality and many intense political changes. The Mexican–American War (1846–1848) led to a territorial cession of the extant northern territories to the United States. The Pastry War, the Franco-Mexican War, a civil war, two empires.

In 1887 President Porfirio Díaz would work with Confederate President William Mahone to create the Mahone-Porfirio Agreement which resulted in the creation of the Confederate-Mexican Railway that crossed from the Pacific and to the Atlantic, the Guaymas Harbor for the joint Confederate/Mexican Pacific Fleet, and the free trade deal between the two countries which lasted until the 1940's.Mexico would send troops to aid of the Confederacy in the Spanish-Confederacy War in 1898.