WHAT PRE-COLONIZED MEXICO WAS REALLY LIKE FOR THE AZTECS

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1. I remember reading in my Spanish courses

the Spanish descriptions of Tenochtitlan. It sounded quite impressive, as the article notes.

They also had a zoo maintained by the royal leaders.

One of the laws regarding what people could wear was the type of cloth. Royals and nobles wore fine cotton. Lower classes wore a coarser cloth made from the maguay plant. Europeans would have been accustomed to such sumptuary laws since they existed in Europe, too, and even in colonial America. One of my Puritan ancestors in colonial Massachusetts was fined twice for wearing clothing above her station.