单选题：The historian Batalla has properly concluded that although t

The historian Batalla has properly concluded that although the Mesoamerican central plateau was militarily conquered in 1521, this conquest did not directly translate into a complete physical, cultural, and psychological
Line surrender, largely because of survival strategies. Batalla's creative three step
(5) model of resistance, innovation, and appropriation helps explain the modern survival and transformation of the Nahua culture. Resistance, the first, includes the native refusing to use fertilizer transported from outside of the communities and those Nahua who burned the school that had been built for them on the same day it was to be inaugurated. The second mechanism,
(10) innovation, included their use of metal drills to create hair pipe and snuff lids to manufacture jingles. And to appreciate the third survivalist tactic, appropriation, we need only consider the way in which native Nahua people have superficially appropriated the Catholic religion as a surface cover for their indigenous customs.
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