Convergence of the Twain Summary :)

• November 24th, 1914- The mint and all government archives were plundered by Carranza and his men
• The railroad system was left in chaos after Carranza's generals attached the railroad in Vercruz to the train, and in a slow procession the railroad was ripped out
• Provisional President: Eulalio Gutierrez
• Zapata hated the national capital of Mexico City, primarily because of his zapatista ideology because cities represented the power of the state and officials
• Zapata had a dream of a peasant utopia, and believed that all of his political ideas were present in the Plan of Ayala
• By common consent, Zapatismo was more revolutionary
• Villa was more concerned with political and educational, rather than socio-economic
• Serious problem for Zapata was uncontrolled banditry that were placed under the umbrella of 'revution'. These bandits were not necessarily associated with Zapata.
• In 1910, the haciendas were threatened by two groups simaltaneously: Peasants demanding land reforms and northern entrepreneurs that wanted to use newer technologies
• BIG FOUR: Carranza, Obregon, Zapata, and Villa
• Zapata is very traditional
• Zapata movement was a coherent class struggle, whereas Villa had a trans-class movement
• Villa and Zapata differed in their values
• On December 4th, at Xochimilco Villa and Zapata met for the first and only time
• Villa accepted the Plan of Ayala
• Neither Villa or Zapata wanted the presidency for different reasons
• Gutierrez issues a manifesto
• Zapata and Villa can never agree fully. One of the greatest disappointments of the Mexican Revolution
• Carranza and Obregon planned to take out Villa