Think As Historian: THINK AS A HISTORIAN: IDENTIfY A CLAIM IN A NON-TEXT SOURCE

While most of the primary sources describing the conquest of Central and South America were written by Spaniards, a few pictorial manuscripts, such as the Florentine Codex and Kingsborogh Codex (or Codex Tepetlaoztoc, named for the region in Mexico where it was produced), relate events from the Aztec point of view. Images as well as text-based sources can assert a claim, a statement or position asserted to be true.

Which of the following best represents the claim in the picture below from the Codex Tepetlaoztoc?

1. Spaniards worked the indigenous people too hard.

2. The indigenous people were not prepared to do the physical labor necessary.

3. Spaniards treated the indigenous people with cruelty.

4. The indigenous people were obedient and did what they were told to do.