The Codex Mendoza uses pictures, Spanish, and this language to describe events like Tenochtitlán’s foundation. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language that was also used alongside Spanish in the Florentine Codex and was widely spoken across the Aztec Empire.
ANSWER: Nahuatl [or Nāhuatlahtōlli; or Mēxihcatlahtōlli or Mācēhuallahtōlli; accept Mexica; prompt on Uto-Aztecan languages]
[10h] Nahuatl texts were the first focus of a school of Mesoamerican ethnohistory named for practicing a “new” form of this discipline. That school, founded by James Lockhart, uses this discipline as a method to reorient historiography around indigenous perspectives.
ANSWER: philology [accept New Philology]
[10m] Later work in New Philology focused on texts from this Mesoamerican civilization, which assumed control of Zapotec Monte Albán in the 14th century. The Codex Zouche-Nuttall describes this civilization’s ruler Eight Deer Jaguar Claw.
ANSWER: Mixtecs [or Mixtecos; accept Ñuù savi; accept “people of the rain” or “cloud people”]
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