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OCR: 3,000 years (from about 1500 or BC to a to 1500 AD) Mexico was home succession of great Indian civi- including the Mayas, Toltecs, lizations, 5. At the time Columbus sailed, and Aztec: cas had about as many inhabit the Americ rope, most of them in Mexico. ants as Eu million people, the Aztec capi- With its 2 ▪chtitlán (on the site of present tal of Tenc o City) may have been the big- day Mexic m the world, as well as one of gest city i Deautiful. the most b quering Spaniards brought with The con lpox and other diseases, which them smal more than 90 percent of the wiped out habitants. Mexico achieved its original in ence in 1821, at which time its independe