>>49821997Except the city I was using as an example, Teotihuacan, was a contemporary to Rome, having it's peak around 500AD.
>>49822013The Great Temple in the top center, and Moctezuma's palace in the bottom middle both have surviving ruins in Mexico City today or have known locations underneath existing modern infrastructure. The overall city layout seen in the middle is shown in 16th century maps as well as can be seen in seismological readings, as when Mexico City is hit by earthquakes, the loose lakebed sediment from the former lakes shakes differently from the islabnds that used to be there, showing the outline of the city.
Conquistadors also describe all of it, it's depicted in manuscripts, etc. The specific architecture style seen in those depictions is also seen in earlier sites in Central Mexico, like Teotihuacan which I mentioned to the other anon, which has a lot of pretty intact structures.
Pic related is two patios from the Atetelco compound at Teotihuacan which show the same style, for example.
>>49822035>>49822052I don't give a shit about moronic nationalist wanking or moralism, I'm not even hispanic, I'm a white murican who just thinks Mesoamerican history is neat.
Sacrifice is just another thing that makes the region interesting (And yes, contrary to what 16 year olds on tumblr claim, it did happen. hough the Spanish did exaggerate the scale of it).
How the region got conquered is honestly what I find the most interesting: They DIDN'T really "lose", because most of the conquest was really different Mesoamerican city-states and rulers manipulating conquistadors to target their political rivals, but the 4d chess Mesoamerican political states did with pledging themselves as subjects/vassals and opportunistically seceding/couping each other backfired since Spain wasn't playing the same political game and just did direct imperialism once they got propped into power/did political marriages with existing rulers:
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