c. 1500
Agriculture
Mesoamerica
Chinampa agriculture at Tenochtitlan
Aztec farmers built raised lake-bed plots yielding several harvests a year.
Why it mattered
Fed one of the largest cities on earth on intensive wetland farming.
Renaissance
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Aztec farmers built raised lake-bed plots yielding several harvests a year.
Why it mattered
Fed one of the largest cities on earth on intensive wetland farming.
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