According to legend, the aztecs wandered across what is today mexico until they came to an island where an eagle was standing on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. the aztecs established their capital city on an island, where legend says their ancestors found the eagle. what concept about ethnicity does this demonstrate?

origin myth  

Explanation:

The origin myth is the foundational story that serves to lay the origins of the Aztec Empire- giving a unique identity and a cosmogony particular to this ethnical group.

The nature of an origin myth is key for understanding the world according to the beliefs that are taught through time by a certain group.

The Aztecs believed in an origin myth much like other important groups like Olmeyas and Mayas. Aztecs identified with the story and their priests taught it for generations.

They were to habit the place where they saw an eagle to prey on a serpent.

The city where they settled they called Tenochtitlan.

The origin myth helped  the Aztecs keep in power by justifying a social order where they were the priests and warriors were a dominant class

Within the origin myth lies the sacred origin of the Aztecs and their worldview

Traditions and rituals helped the Aztecs to perpetuate their presence in Central and South Mexico until the arrival of the Spanish conquerors.

d.) continue to rise rapidly

answer; i believe the answer is (b) fascism;