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”]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Duke A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Florida A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Virginia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |