December
22
/ 2023
When faced with the seemingly impossible task of feeding a huge population in the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs came up with an ingenious solution about 1,000 years ago. Located in the midst of an enormous swamp, they used their knowledge of Mesoamerican engineering techniques and created a vast complex of seemingly floating islands that served as farmland for their burgeoning society. Painting of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco on Lake Texcoco on display at the INAH in Mexico City. ( Public domain ) The Aztecs, Tenochtitlan and their Ingenious Chinampas While human sacrifice is probably the first thing that comes to people’s minds when they think about the Aztecs, there is much more to Aztec civilization than this practice. By 1519, when
