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Identify each statement about Sahagún’s description of the indigenous perspective of the destruction
of Tenochtitlán as either true or false.
Statement
True
False
This document describes both occurrences and reasons as to how people
understood events as omens.
There is no Christian imagery in this document.
Sahagún witnessed the omens described in this document firsthand.
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Explanation:
This document describes individual occurrences and also how people understood them as omens. The
author, a Spanish priest named Bernardino de Sahagún, wrote this document based on oral histories
given to him by Aztecs, but he does not explore alternate causes of these events or seek an
explanation. Though Sahagún undertook extensive studies of the Aztec people in his lifetime, his
methods are not discussed in this document. The account is also lacking in Christian imagery and the
concept of divine intervention, unique for the time because many Europeans were tempted to explain
the world through a Christian perspective.
If you were a Spaniard during Sahagún’s time reading this account, and you reached the part about the
men riding on animals “resembling deer,” what might you think Motecuhzoma saw?
Jesus
Spanish soldiers on horseback
Centaur-like creatures
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Explanation:
Horses had not existed in the Americas for over 10,000 years when the Spanish reintroduced them
upon their arrival. The closest animal with which the Aztecs might be familiar was the deer. A Spaniard
might assume that Motecuhzoma (
Montezuma
in Spanish) saw a premonition of mounted Spanish
soldiers. Interestingly, many indigenous peoples believed that horse and man were one creature upon
first seeing a mounted Spaniard.
What happened when Motecuhzoma examined omens predicated on living things?
Check all that
apply.
The omens explained their meaning to him.
The omens vanished.
The omens appeared as unnatural.
His magicians were able to correctly interpret their meaning.
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Explanation:
On two occasions, Motecuhzoma (
Montezuma
in Spanish) examined omens based on the appearance
of living things (omens seven and eight). Both times, unnatural beings appeared: once a bird with a
strange mirror on its head, and once two-headed men. Upon closer inspection, both disappeared,
lending a supernatural air to their appearances.
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