>>41812920>>41811693>>41803834>>41803914>>41803965Sorry fell asleep, cont:
That being said, we DO know a great deal about the fine details of Aztec society and goverment, so we can take a more detailed glimpse there. So much so that It'd take up like another 3 posts, I have other shit to do, but as a tl;dr: The Aztec captial had multiple municipal districts with their own local courts, police forces, and schools; a series of higher level state appellate courts with professional judges; a formal organized military with barracks, garrsions, a formalized rank structure; civil offices and hierarchies for priests, constables, doctors, and tax/economic officials who managed collecting resources and goods from hundreds of citieis and thousands of smaller population centers across 200,000 square kilometers of territory.
You had long distance merchants and mercantile guilds; esteemed artists of stuff like painting, pottery, featherwork, goldwork; poets and philosophers who taught at noble schools and formed their own intellectual circles, and what was possibly the most hygienic society prior to the creation of germ theory with autistic levels of devotion to sanitation with near daily baths, daily washing of streets and buildings and collection of waste and trash, aquaducts designed with two pipes so one could always be cleaned as the other ran; expectations of washing ones face, hands, and teeth before and after every meal; etc.
Most impressively, to me, they had stupid advanced bonotanical science, with bonotanical gardens which didn't just house them for recreational viewing, but academic study to crossbreed for medical properties and to and categorize using binomial taxonomy, beating Carl Linnaeus to the punch, see pic; and over 85% of recorded Aztec herbal medical treatments have been found to be medically effective. (the paper I linked before re: Sanitation goes into this/medicine in general as well)
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