Chinampas: The Aztec Floating Farms
Discover how the Aztecs fed a city of 200,000 people using chinampas—ingenious artificial islands built from mud, reeds, and willow trees that yielded up to seven harvests a year. This…
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The Triple Alliance Before Cortés
Before the Spanish arrival, the "Aztec Empire" was not a single, unified kingdom but a complex confederation of three city-states: Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. Known as the Triple Alliance, this…