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change comes from above (led by the upper classes), in revolution it comes from

below (the lower classes take the lead). The modern era was initiated in the region

by the twentieth century’s first “socialist” revolution, which like a volcano erupted in

Mexico’s countryside in 1910. But that is a topic for the chapter to follow on native

Mesoamericans in the Modern Era.

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