For 10 points, name this Spanish colony whose capital was the built on the site of Tenochtitlan.
After it was established, this colony was the major export center of the scarlet red cochineal dye produced by its natives. The success of the Mixtón War in this colony enabled the mass settlement of a subregion of it for silver mining. A collection of artifacts from and writings about this colony was assembled by Lorenzo Boturini. An early ethnography of this colony, often known simply as its General History, is housed in the Laurentian Library. In this colony, many (*) casta paintings depicted lower-class people abusing the alcoholic beverage pulque [POOL-kay]. Most Manila galleons made their eastern stop at this colony's city of Acapulco. The friar Bernardino de Sahagún collected the legends of this colony's natives into the Florentine Codex. For 10 points, name this Spanish colony whose capital was the built on the site of Tenochtitlan.
After it was established, this colony was the major export center of the scarlet red cochineal dye produced by its natives.
(Viceroyalty of) New Spain [or Nueva España; accept Colonial Mexico]