say that when Hernan Cortes arrived in the city of Technotitlan was totally amazed because it showed the city engineer had not known in any European city. Mexico Tenochtitlan (place of tunas in stone / prickly pears are the fruit that gives the cactus), was based on a small island in the middle of a lake in 1325, had temples, buildings, houses, markets, growing areas, water systems, dams, about 180 neighborhoods and roads.
"This city has many squares as large as two times the city of Salamanca, all surrounded by portals around where there are daily than sixty thousand souls buying and selling, where There are all kinds of merchandises in all lands are, and maintenance as victuals, gold and silver, lead, brass, copper, tin, stones, bones, blankets, snails and feathers; véndese as carved stone and styling, adobe, brick, wood carvings and styling of different ways. There is a street game, where they sell all the lineages of birds that are in earth, as well as chickens, partridges, quail, mallards, Doral, zarceta, doves, pigeons, birds in fescue, parrots, Buhare, eagles, falcons, hawks and kestrels, and some birds of prey WITH THESE sell the hides with his pen and heads and beaks and claws. Sold rabbits, hares, deer and small dogs, raising to eat, neutered. There are streets of herbalists, where roots and medicinal herbs that are on earth. There are houses like apothecaries, where they sell medicines made, as well as ointments drinking and plasters. There are houses like barbers, where they wash and shave their heads. There are houses where they eat and drink prices. There are men like those called in Castile porters, to bring charges. There are a lot of wood, coal, clay braziers in many ways and mats for beds, and more thin mats for seats and rooms and chambers. There are all manner of vegetables that will fail, especially onions, leeks, garlic, cress, watercress, borage, sorrel and thorns and thistles, there are fruits in many ways, there are cherries and plums that resemble those of Spain. They sell honey and beeswax and honey corn stalks, which are so mellow and sweet as sugar, honey and some plants that call in other and these "maguey", which is much better than syrup, and from these plants FACEN sugar and wine also sell .......
Letter of Hernan Cortes to the King
Antimatter 
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