Week 5

Question 1

Malintzin

Answer 1

Nahua woman, translator

Question 2

Florentine Codex [IMPORTANT]

Answer 2

The Florentine Codex is a book produced in the 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish. It has 12 volumes and was a collaboration between Nahua speakers and Friar Bernardino de Sahagún

Question 3

Templo Mayor

Answer 3

main temple in Tenochtitlan

Question 4

Moctezuma

Answer 4

leader of Tenochtitlan (Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco were two separate cities that merged to form the capital of the Aztec empire)

Question 5

tzquauhtzin

Answer 5

leader of Tlatelolco (Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco were two separate cities that merged to form the capital of the Aztec empire)

Question 6

lienzo [IMPORTANT]

Answer 6

a large cloth canvas. The perspective of the conquest is the Spanish perspective

Question 7

Xicotencatl

Answer 7

leader of Tlaxcala

Question 8

enconchados [IMPORTANT]

Answer 8

oil-on-board paintings with inlaid mother-
of-pearl (Mother of pearl, also known as nacre, is a hard, iridescent, and organic gemstone that lines the interior of some mollusks’ shells)

Question 9

Noche Triste

Answer 9

sad night

Question 10

Cuahtemoc

Answer 10

last Mexican ruler

Question 11

biombo [IMPORTANT]

Answer 11

Asian-inspired folding screen painting

Question 12

Series of the conquest of Mexico Painting 4, The death of …