Nahuatl - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

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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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Chicago B	Florida A	10	0	10
Chicago C	Harvard A	10	0	10
Cornell B	MIT A	10	0	10
Imperial A	Houston A	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Indiana A	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Columbia A	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Virginia A	10	0	10
Minnesota A	UC Berkeley A	10	10	20
Brown A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	20
Claremont A	WUSTL B	10	10	20
Maryland A	Cornell A	10	0	10
Illinois A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10
Penn State A	Rutgers A	10	10	20
Toronto A	Texas A	10	0	10
Yale A	WUSTL A	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Florida B	10	0	10
Iowa State A	Penn A	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	0	10
McGill A	Yale B	10	0	10
Stanford A	Ohio State A	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Purdue A	10	0	10
UC Berkeley B	NYU A	10	0	10
Chicago A	Duke A	10	10	20
Michigan A	Minnesota B	10	0	10