The Colonial City
This city was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
These people were Spaniards born in Spain and usually occupied the highest positions.
Who were the peninsulares?
Mexico City was surrounded by lakes and these natural formations.
What are mountains?
This legend is about a woman crying at night, “Oh, my children!”
Who is La Llorona?
This word means the period or territory governed by a viceroy.
What is viceroyalty?
Mexico City was the political center of this Spanish territory.
What is New Spain?
These people were of Spanish descent but born in the Americas.
Who were the Creoles?
In earlier times, Tenochtitlan was connected to the mainland by these roads over water.
What are causeways?
La Llorona was often associated with grief, motherhood, and this historical trauma.
What is conquest and colonialism?
This word refers to the remains of destroyed or very old buildings.
What are ruins?
The Spanish used stones from destroyed Indigenous temples and palaces to build these types of colonial structures.
What are churches, government buildings, houses, and roads?
This shaped people’s opportunities in colonial society, together with race, class, honor, and legal status.
What is social hierarchy?
Boats carried food, firewood, flowers, animals, and construction materials through these.
What are canals?
This legend is about a wealthy man who killed strangers at eleven o’clock.
Who is Don Juan Manuel?
This word means strong religious love, loyalty, or dedication.
What is devotion?
This person represented the king of Spain in New Spain.
Who was the viceroy?
Although colonial society was unequal, the reading also describes it as this because people from different backgrounds interacted constantly.
What is dynamic?
Because floods were frequent, colonial authorities invested in these expensive and difficult projects.
What are drainage projects?
Don Juan Manuel made a pact with this figure.
Who is the devil?
This word refers to short printed texts used to share ideas, religious messages, or political opinions.
What are pamphlets?
The reading says Mexico City should be understood as a place of this, not simple replacement.
What is overlap?
Indigenous people were not simply passive victims; according to the reading, they adapted, negotiated, resisted, and did this.
What is survived?
Through this port, products from Asia, especially from the Philippines, reached New Spain.
What is Acapulco?
The legend of Don Juan Manuel reflects colonial concerns about honor, male control over women, religious fear, and this emotion after wrongdoing.
What is remorse?
This word means two or more things existing together in the same space, even if they come from different times or cultures.
What is overlap?