The oldest, and most recently discovered, full codex that survived this bishop’s book burnings was exhibited and published by Michael Coe in 1971. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Franciscan bishop who led indigenous book burnings in an unauthorized inquisition in the 1560s. He names an “alphabet” of indigenous symbols that he thought were equivalent to the letters of the Roman alphabet.
ANSWER: Diego de Landa Calderón
[10e] The surviving abridged copy of Landa’s Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, which contains his “alphabet,” is the best external primary source on this main indigenous civilization of the precolonial Yucatán.
ANSWER: Mayan civilization
[10m] After Landa’s alphabet was identified as an incomplete syllabary, a 1973 roundtable at this site produced the first Mayan king list. That list allowed this city’s rulers like Pacal the Great to be identified with Mayan names.
ANSWER: Palenque (“pa-LEN-kay”) [or Lakamha or Bàak’]
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