History of the United States I / Unit 1 USH1 0008 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tenochtitlán
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The idea
From thirteen twenty-five the Aztec built Tenochtitlán on an island in Lake Texcoco. By the Spanish arrival in fifteen nineteen it held over two hundred thousand people.
In practice
The largest city in the Western Hemisphere, and likely larger than any in Europe.
Where people slip
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a soldier who saw it, wrote that the Spanish were amazed and called it like enchantments.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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