TENOCHTITLAN

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Tenochtitlan was one of a kind city, share any pictures you got about it.

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view from a family house surrounded by chinampas

Mosquito filled dump

everytime i read or see illustrations of it i learn to hate the eternal iberian more and more

I imagine it like this, like those thai floating markets, canals instead of streets, lots of color fruits and stuff.

>view
No nigga that's a computer gane.

Except filled. And i mean absolutely infested with mosquitoes from that huge brackish lake those aztecs decided to build on.

This great city of Tenochtitlán is built on the salt lake, and no matter by what road you travel there are two leagues from the main body of the city to the mainland. There are four artificial causeways leading to it, and each is as wide as two cavalry lances. The city itself is as big as Seville or Córdoba. The main streets are very wide and very straight; some of these are on the land, but the rest and all the smaller ones are half on land, half canals where they paddle their canoes. All the streets have openings in places so that the water may pass from one canal to another. Over all these openings, and some of them are very wide, there are bridges. . . . There are, in all districts of this great city, many temples or houses for their idols. They are all very beautiful buildings. .
Hernando Cortes.

. . Amongst these temples there is one, the principal one, whose great size and magnificence no human tongue could describe, for it is so large that within the precincts, which are surrounded by very high wall, a town of some five hundred inhabitants could easily be built. All round inside this wall there are very elegant quarters with very large rooms and corridors where their priests live. There are as many as forty towers, all of which are so high that in the case of the largest there are fifty steps leading up to the main part of it and the most important of these towers is higher than that of the cathedral of Seville. . . ."
Hernando Cortes.

No one cares what a murdering pillaging rapist thinks

Go back to your UNAM mesoamericam circle jerks faggot

>whose great size and magnificence no human tongue could describe
Of course not. They were ripping tongues out at the top.

I like the idea of an exotic zoo imagine being a conquistador and shown animals never seen before.

According to the Spanish writers of the time, the collection of Montezuma’s zoo was so vast that 300 keepers were required to care for the beasts. It was also described as so huge that all of the European rulers of the era would have envied his collection. However, it is hard to say for certain what kinds of animals lived in this zoo as the Spaniards who wrote about them didn't know what many of them were called.

The zoo had twenty freshwater and saltwater ponds which housed a variety of fish and aquatic birds.

Ffs a turkey was exotic to the spaniards

view from the popocateptl volcano, same view cortes would have had

Why are you getting triggered at the Spanish's own accounts of the city?

One of the conquistadors
wrote:

We saw on the lake
a multitude of ships, some
of which were loaded with
goods
...
And when we had
looked at it all,
we turned to
the great market square
and the large crowd buying
and selling there. The noise
and
the sound of the voice
s
could be heard more than a
mile away. Among us there
were soldiers who had been
in many parts of the world,
in Constantinople, in the
whole of Italy, in Rome, but
they said they had never
seen a market s
o well
organised an
d so orderly, so
large and so crowded.

this is why military history trumps all. No matter what idyllic shit you got going, you better be prepared to defend it or you've already got one foot in terms trashbin

I want to go back there

...

From age of empires

Incas were superior to savage aztecs.

Why does this topic always trigger people?

>le child killing savages XD
>lel the city sucks!!!!

I thought this was Veeky Forums not /pol/

you got that wrong pal, this is a /pol/ colony now

Anyway heres a nice little video about the Aztecs with some details about Tenochtitlan. Not sure how accurate it is these days.
youtube.com/watch?v=vW0We5RhrPc

I have no idea, not any rational ones at least. It's so fucking strange that someone could be rustled about the fact that mesoamerica had a legitimate civilization in place.

What's with the freaks posting about "the city sucked!11!!!"?

From all written accounts we have, it was an extraordinary city that managed to bedazzle the Spaniards, and archaeological excavations have backed up the account that it was indeed a large, complex city and an architectural wonder.

>"it was built on a swamp!"

Literally who cares? So was Venice and a number of other European cities. As for practical concerns, fresh potable water was brought into the city by means of a an aqueduct system, and the locals took advantage of the brackish environment to create the chinampa system that allowed the city to be self-sufficient in terms of foodstuffs. Moreover, we know the Aztecs placed great emphasis on cleanliness, such that they planted fragrant trees and plants along public spaces in order to perfume the air (something that even the Spaniards attested to).

Are you people /pol/tards that get triggered by the very idea that there existed great cities outside of Europe?

True they were crazy about bathing,
At a time in Europe when street cleaning was almost non-existent and people emptied their overflowing chamber pots into the streets as a matter of course, the Aztecs employed a thousand public service cleaners to sweep and water their streets daily, built public toilets in every neighbourhood, and transported human waste in canoes for use as fertilizer.

Mexicas were a bunch of fags.
Im glad their city is a shithole now, Mexico city is probably the worst place on earth to live in.

THIS TRIGGERS THE EUROPEAN
While London was still drawing its drinking water from the polluted River Thames as late as 1854, the Aztecs supplied their capital city with fresh water from the nearby hill of Chapultepec by means of two aqueducts, the first built by Netzahualcóyotl between 1466 and 1478, the second some 20 years later by the ruler Ahuitzotl.

WE WUZ AZTECS

Yes, the Aztecs were Aztecs. How did you come to that conclusion?

He's retarded.

>/pol/

/pol/ here, we don't think bad of the Aztecs at all. They really don't register on /pol/'s radar other than current Mexican's we wuz owners of the Southwest n shiet

dat crystal skull head, bottom left

but it was true though. Though there is no debating that the city was beautiful, but there was a reason why a bunch of tribes like the Tlaxcalans allied with the Spanish against the Mexica. If the Mexica kept taking women and prisoners to sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli and demanding tributes, then of course you will think that the Mexica are pretty awful to non-Mexicas.

Plus, Cortes tried to hold surrender discussions with Cuauhtemoc multiples times in the final days of the Mexica and Cuauhtemoc refused to surrender, forcing Cortes to destroy the city since the Mexica were willing to die than surrender.

>tfw Spaniards destroyed Tenochtitlan only to replace it with Mexico City
The reconquista was a mistake

>Spaniards destroyed Tenochtitlan
And nothing of value was lost

>Massive stone-age city unparalleled anywhere else in north and south america, and most of the world for that matter
>Nothing of value

Fucking faggot nigger

Because he's a butthurt shitlib.

>Tenochtitlan
>stone age city

?

Looks pretty comfy desu.

fucking iberian scum
muslim rapebabies the lot of them

They weren't Stone Age but they hadn't quite hit Bronze Age either.
You do know they used mostly stone weapons and metalcrafting while existing was not a very important aspect of society, the main things that cause us to classify them as such?

2bh I don't think that applying the three-age system to their civilization is an entirely accurate way of assessing it as a whole. It's not rather fair or consistent. Technologically, I could understand how it is more appropriate when considering their weapons and the materials that were more commonly utilized, but the complexity of the societal structure in place, as well as the extent of their architectural feats should rightfully distinguish it as a civilization that needs to be assessed within its own context for the most part. This should go for other Mesoamerican peoples aside from the Aztecs also.