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The term Novohispano is used to refer to everything proper or related to New Spain (present-day Mexico), since This is how the Republic of Mexico was called during the colonial era, immediately after the Discovery of America. Thus we find a literature novohispana, with a theater novohispano, among other issues.

The Viceroyalty of New Spain was a territory member of the Spanish Kingdom that established the Spanish Crown while its American rule lasted, it was created approximately between the years 1519 and 1521 after the defeat suffered by the native peoples who resided there by the troops of the Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes.
The first Viceroy of New Spain was Antonio de Mendoza and the capital was Mexico City.

The main value attributed to and recognized by the territory was that of being a mining center which as such offered and meant a great source of wealth for the Spanish crown, from which they repeatedly used to satisfy some expenses of the state, the costs of wars and conquests and also to mint the currency that circulated in those time.

But in addition, the aforementioned Viceroyalty deployed widely profitable economic activities such as cattle ranching, farming And trade.

In addition to the Spanish Crown, another enormous influence on the territory was the one exerted by the Catholic Church, who not only was the owner of an enormous power that allowed her to acquire large properties but also took care of monopolizing the education, health services and some other essential areas of the public administration.

At the beginning of the 19th century the institutionpolitics and economic and economic conditions of the Viceroyalty of New Spain began to show a prolonged decline as a result of a crisis that was further aggravated by the Spanish War of Independence.
Already by 1808 with the government of Viceroy José de Iturrigaray finished and the conspiracy of Querétaro, the Mexican war of independence was a concrete fact and when it reached its Finally, in 1821 it caused the disintegration of the aforementioned viceroyalty and its division into various states such as What Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.