
Like Venice, the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán was built on a series of marshy islands, though it was located in a mountain basin rather than a lagoon. This hand-colored woodcut map was the first picture Europeans had of the city, printed in Nuremberg, 1524
Tenochtitlán from the European view.
Like Venice, the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán was built on a series of marshy islands, though it was located in a...