This city was Tenochtitlan; it had about 200 000 people (some scholars estimate at 300 000 however). There was another city next to it: Tlatelolco. Today Tlatelolco in in Mexico city.
Ruby's attribution illustrates a pessimistic explanatory style.
This explanatory style is where a person tends to blame herself or himself for negative events and believes that such events will probably continue indefinitely. The pessimistic explanatory style is the opposite of optimistic explanatory style. Pessimistic explanatory style is an internal stress to the body and has a negative effect to physical and psychological health.
At noon on December 31, 1999.
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal
