European Mexicans are Mexican citizens of full or majority European descent.[112] Europeans began arriving in Mexico during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and continued immigrating to the country during colonial and independent Mexico. According to 20th and 21st century academics, large scale intermixing between the European immigrants and the native Indigenous peoples would produce a Mestizo group which would become the overwhelming majority of Mexico's population by the time of the Mexican revolution.[113] However, according to church registers from the colonial times, the majority (73%) of Spanish men married with Spanish women.