Analyze the SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICA 1519-1521 FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES — Indigenous Nahua-voiced (Florentine Codex Book 12 + Anonymous Tlatelolco Manuscript) FIRST + Tlaxcalan + Spanish; centering La Malinche as strategic political actor (Townsend 2006) and refusing Restall's SEVEN MYTHS
Exercise
Difficulty 5
~12 min
hist.g7.s.ex_30
Refusal Argument
Prompt
Refute Restall MYTH 6 ('native desolation') with at least 3 pieces of specific present-tense named evidence.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
rubric essay
rubric
- points
- 4
- criterion
- 3+ pieces of present-tense evidence
- points
- 3
- criterion
- 1.7M+ Nahuatl speakers in contemporary Mexico cited
- points
- 3
- criterion
- INAH/UNAM/Templo Mayor present-tense institutions cited
- points
- 3
- criterion
- Apply MG-9 Living-Descendant Promise
Hints
- INAH = Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico).
- Zapatista EZLN 1994 is continuity-arc — Maya majority Indigenous-Mexican.
Misconceptions to watch
- Treating Indigenous peoples as 'historical' (past-tense)
- Ignoring contemporary cultural-political life
Used in lessons