The province of Xoconochco was situated on the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the

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The province of Xoconochco was situated on the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Because Xoconochco’s loion within the empire was so blank, cacao and other trade goods produced there could reach the capital only after a long overland journey.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Accepted Answer

Choice D is the best answer because it most logically completes the text&rsquo;s discussion of the loion of the province of Xoconochco within the Aztec Empire. As used in this context, &ldquo;peripheral&rdquo; means situated toward the outer bounds rather than the center. The text indies that Xoconochco was loed on a coast, hundreds of kilometers away from the capital of the Aztec Empire. The text also states that trade between the province and the capital required &ldquo;a long overland journey.&rdquo; This context suggests that Xoconochco was situated toward an edge of the empire&rsquo;s territory rather than near its center. Choice A is incorrect because it wouldn&rsquo;t make sense in context to refer to Xoconochco&rsquo;s loion within the Aztec Empire as &ldquo;unobtrusive,&rdquo; or not blatant or undesirably prominent; it&rsquo;s not clear how a province&rsquo;s physical loion would or wouldn&rsquo;t be blatant. Instead of focusing on how noticeable Xoconochco&rsquo;s loion was, the text emphasizes the province&rsquo;s distance from the capital of the empire, pointing out that because of this distance trade between the two required &ldquo;a long overland journey.&rdquo; Choice B is incorrect because the text indies that the province of Xoconochco was loed on a coast far from the capital of the Aztec Empire, not that it was &ldquo;concealed,&rdquo; or kept out of sight or hidden from view. Nothing in the text suggests that Xoconochco was actually hidden such that people couldn&rsquo;t see it, and being hidden wouldn&rsquo;t necessarily result in trade between the province and the capital requiring &ldquo;a long overland journey.&rdquo; Choice C is incorrect because to say that Xoconochco&rsquo;s loion within the Aztec Empire was &ldquo;approximate&rdquo; would mean that the loion either wasn&rsquo;t precisely correct or was close to some other loion. Neither of these meanings would make sense in context because the text indies that Xoconochco&rsquo;s loion is known and that it was far from the empire&rsquo;s capital, so there&rsquo;s no reason to characterize the loion as either not precisely correct or close to another loion.

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