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Prior to this city’s founding, a king declared war on a people who used his daughter’s skin as a priest’s skirt. A 16th century CE pictographic map depicts the journey towards this city from a northern “place of herons” once settled by a people who emerged from seven caves. Copil’s heart marked (20[1])this city’s location, directions to which were whispered by a hummingbird idol carried by priests. (20[1])A god born from a ball of (*) feathers (10[1])informed migrants where to perform this city’s 1325 CE founding. A god of war told one people to build this city where a snake-devouring eagle perched on a cactus. For 10 points, Nahuatl refugees settled what city on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco, the future Aztec capital? ■END■

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