{"content":[{"text":"Tenochtitlán, the ancient capital of the Aztec empire, was located at the site of modern \n Mexico City. It was founded c. 1325 in the marshes of Lake Texcoco. It formed a \n confederacy with Texcoco and Tlacopán and was the Aztec capital by the late 15th \n century. Originally located on two small islands in Lake Texcoco, it gradually spread \n through the construction of artificial islands to cover more than 5 square miles. It was \n connected to the mainland by several causeways. The population in 1519 was estimated \n to be about 400,000 people, the largest residential concentration in Mesoamerican \n history. \n LEVEL 3: What does it mean?","bbox":{"left":0.126863,"top":0.090716,"width":0.745376,"height":0.19862399999999997}},{"text":"Author’s Purpose","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.309256,"width":0.159628,"height":0.020152999999999976}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.147051,"top":0.348712,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.01707700000000001}},{"text":"What reasons and evidence does the author use to create an interplay between \n mythology and history to interpret Mexica culture?","bbox":{"left":0.176473,"top":0.347684,"width":0.627155,"height":0.037024}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.147069,"top":0.404163,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.01707700000000001}},{"text":"The author asserts that “Art reveals the soul of a nation.” How does the art in the book \n support her interpretation of Mexica culture?","bbox":{"left":0.176491,"top":0.403135,"width":0.6831639999999999,"height":0.037024}},{"text":"Intertextual Connections","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.458802,"width":0.227844,"height":0.020152999999999976}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.50144,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.01707700000000001}},{"text":"Draw on information from Legend of Tenochtitlán, An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods \n and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (below), and \n www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/early-cultures/aztec-mexica/v/coatlicue, to \n interpret the sculpture of Coatlicue on page 3.","bbox":{"left":0.174964,"top":0.499105,"width":0.709012,"height":0.07545400000000002}},{"text":"Standing on huge taloned feet, Coatlicue wears a dress of woven rattlesnakes. Her \n pendulous breasts are partially obscured behind a grisly necklace of severed hearts and \n hands. Writhing coral snakes appear in place of her head and hands, denoting gouts of \n blood gushing from her severed throat and wrists. The two great snakes emerging from \n her neck face one another, creating a face of living blood.","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.592836,"width":0.69384,"height":0.09247399999999995}},{"text":"LEVEL 4: What does it inspire you to do?","bbox":{"left":0.126863,"top":0.723051,"width":0.520448,"height":0.03022899999999995}},{"text":"Opinion with Evidence or Argument","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.773195,"width":0.330772,"height":0.020152999999999976}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.815834,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.01707700000000001}},{"text":"Integrate information about the Coyolxauhqui Stone from Legend of Tenochtitlán, An \n Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (below), \n and www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/early-cultures/aztec- \n mexica/v/coyolxauhqui-monolith in order to write or speak about the Coyolxauhqui Stone \n knowledgeably.","bbox":{"left":0.174961,"top":0.813498,"width":0.705843,"height":0.09185199999999993}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}