Is the Mexican Revolution Justifiably Called a Revolution?

The Mexican Revolution threw Mexico into turmoil for about two decades making itself an established time period in Mexican history. It has been written down as a revolution as people had rose together to get their voice heard. In this essay I shall look at the facts of the situation and see if this event in Mexican history is justifiably called a revolution.
The Mexican revolution occurred when the Porfiratio, or the 35 year reign of Porfiratio Diaz, had driven people to anger. The need for a change in leadership was the initial cause, indeed the trigger, for the revolution and the change was achieved and so it can be said that the Mexicans had carried out a revolution from a general study.
However, if we were to look into it from a historical context by underlining the basis for a revolution and comparing it with the situation of the time then we find a deifferent conclusion.
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