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Lección 4
¡Vivan los países hispanos!

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Palabras clave
Aztecas / Aztecs
Costumbres mexicanas / Mexican customs
Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead
fiestas mexicanas / Mexican holidays
historia de México / Mexico history
México D.F. / Mexico city
Paseo de la Reforma
Templo Mayor
Zócalo

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In ¡Vivan los países hispanos! on page 96 of your textbook and on your Interactive CD-ROM, you learned about Mexico. Use the Internet to find out more about this Spanish-speaking country by completing the following items.

Who were the Aztecas and who was Quetzalcóatl?
What is the Templo Mayor? Where is it located?
What is the Zócalo? What happens there?
What is the Paseo de la Reforma? What would you find there?
What is Día de los Muertos and on what day(s) does it take place each year?
Describe two of the following items and their relationship to Día de los Muertos: papel picado (colorful cut-paper banners), ofrendas (offerings), calaveras (skeletons), cempasúchiles (marigolds), panteones (cemeteries).

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