Packet 2: Tossup 12

A massive market at Acolman sold a fatty variety of these animals, two of which are depicted dancing in one of the celebrated red slip figurines left by the “shaft tomb tradition” in Colima. In the conventional etymology, these animals provide the exonym for northern nomads whose raiding of Otomi convert towns along the “silver route” (10[1])sparked a lengthy 16th-century war. These animals putatively (-5[1])named the Chichimeca. (10[1])The horses that spread after the Pueblo revolt were nicknamed “big” or “magic” (10[2])examples of these animals, (10[1])since both were used (10[1])with frames called travois (10[1])(“trav-WAH”). These animals (10[1]-5[1])and turkeys were the two domesticates kept for (10[1]-5[1])food by the (-5[1])Aztecs, (-5[1])who believed (-5[1])that the god Xolotl (10[1])(“SHO-loh-tull”) took their (-5[1])form (10[2])to guide the dead (10[2])to (10[1])Mictlān. (10[1])For 10 points, what animals’ pre-colonial DNA contributed to breeds like the Xoloitzcuintle (“sho-lo-its-KWINT-lay”) and (10[1])the Chihuahua? ■END■ (10[7])

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