As the Result of __________________, Only 13 of the Countless

question 6

Multiple Choice

As the result of __________________, only 13 of the countless books created by Maya and pre-Hispanic scribes from highland Mexico are known to have survived to the present day.

• A) a great fire that destroyed the museum in which most of these books were housed in the early 1900s
• B) the primitive types of pigments available in Mesoamerica
• C) the tendency of deerskin to degrade over time
• D) the efforts of the Spanish to systematically eradicate non-Christian texts

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