Below is an image of the mural Mexican artist Diego Rivera painted for the Palacio Nacional de México in 1945. His mural was based on what historians of his time knew about the Aztec capital city. This mural shows the marketplace in Tenochitlan
Click on this link to go to the zoomable version at Wikimedia Commons. Make a list of five to ten things you can see people trading in the market. Then select one or more to sketch in your journal. Put your list and your sketch on the same page. To conserve pages, use the first available blank space. A half of a page, maybe even less, will work.
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