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Studies have backed up that upwards of 80% of the medical treatments we have in Aztec herbals and medical guides would have been medically effective. There's also the matter, of, again, the bonotanical categorization and breeding going on was on another level here. And as the paper notes, there were outright state ran hopsitals., potentially with mandatory quarantines of sick individuals. Cortes and other Spainiards not themselves in their accounts that Aztec doctors were superior to those in Spain at the time.
>As for size, who cares? Stuffing a bunch of bodies together doesn't mean shitBeing able to support a high amount of people in a single place DOES mean something, assuming the quality of life isn't dropping dramatically as population density goes up. Mesoamerican cities weren't just a bunch of people cramped in huts, they were urban metropolises: They had palaces, temples, marketplaces, plazas, gardens, roads, etc, with smooth stone and stucco/painted surfaces, murals, frescos, stuff like fine cloithes, pottery, and sculptures in public places and in higher quality residences, and as mentioned, there was a high degree of access to clean water, cleanliness, etc.
Obviously, pretty much every urban, state society has this, but when you combine this WITH the exceptional population size, as well as the physical expansie of the city, Yes, Tenochtitlan is notable, one of the biggest in the world at thwe time, and it's not like Tenochtitlan was the only actual city" Teotihuacan was from 1000 years before Tenochtitlan/the Aztec, and was litterally larger then imperial rome in expanse, and had all of it's citizens living in well furnished, multi-room stone complexes, which had running water and plumbing, painted frescos, etc. Granted, Teotihuacaan is also exceptional, but even an average Mesoamerican city had like 15,000 to 20,000 people, putting it on par with early classical antiquity
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