Unlike the dirty, fetid cities of Europe at the time, Tenochtitlán was well planned, clean, and orderly.
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I do not know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about.” And some of our soldiers even asked whether the things that we saw were not a dream?. on account of the great towers and cues and buildings rising from the water, and all built of masonry. One of Cortés’s soldiers, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, recorded his impressions upon first seeing it: “When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said it was like the enchantments. By 1519, when Cortés arrived, this settlement contained upwards of 200,000 inhabitants and was certainly the largest city in the Western Hemisphere at that time and probably larger than any European city. In 1325, they began construction of Tenochtitlán on an island in Lake Texcoco.
Aztec belief centered on supplying the gods with human blood-the ultimate sacrifice-to keep them strong and well.Īccording to legend, a warlike people called the Aztec (also known as the Mexica) had left a city called Aztlán and traveled south to the site of present-day Mexico City. In this illustration, an Aztec priest cuts out the beating heart of a sacrificial victim before throwing the body down from the temple.
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