Question

An excavation of this city was restarted in 1978 after a stone disc portraying the death of a moon goddess was discovered by utility (15[2]-5[1])workers. During an attack on this (15[1])city, one general destroyed an aqueduct designed with two ducts that provided spring water from “grasshopper hill.” This city’s 4 camps were built around its central (15[1])sacred precinct, the site of the House of the Eagles. Over 200,000 people likely lived in this city’s 20 (-5[1])(*) calpulli (10[4])districts. This (10[1])city's (10[1])“great (10[1]-5[1])speaker” received tribute like (-5[1])cacao from canoes that traveled past its floating (10[3])chinampa (10[2])gardens. This (10[1])capital (10[1])of the Triple Alliance was built on an island in Lake Texcoco where settlers (10[1])allegedly saw an eagle eating a snake atop a cactus. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican city that became Mexico (10[1])City. (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Tenochtitlan [accept Mexico City until mentioned]
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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%0%33%103.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%50%25%63.75
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%25%93.00
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