Packet 6: Bonus 19
The first section of Miguel León-Portilla’s book The Broken Spears includes translations from a work in this language found in the Laurentian Library. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language used by the New Philology school to orient Mexican historiography around indigenous perspectives. This language was used by Bernardino de Sahagún in the Florentine Codex.
ANSWER: Nahuatl [accept Mexicano or Aztec]
[10m] An early New Philology work was Sarah Cline’s thesis on Culhuacán, which may have been the first town that planted crops on these “floating islands” in the Valley of Mexico.
ANSWER: chinampas [or chināmitl]
[10h] Chinampas developed around a fresh historic lake with this name and Chalcas in the southern part of the valley. A Nahuatl-speaking city was also given this name, which translates to “field of flowers.”
ANSWER: Xochimilco
<MS, World History> | NAFTA-Packet-6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 16.32 | 90% | 68% | 5% |
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 83% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 50% | 100% | 50% |