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People never grasp how devastating a loss the fall of Tenochtitlan was. When Cortes invaded Tenochtitlan, there were 300,000 people living there. It was one of the largest cities in the world, if not the largest at the time. Cortes was awestruck by the city because there were feats of engineering there that Europeans straight up couldn’t accomplish.
A sample of the amenities of Tenochtitlan: canals; a plumbing system that was designed to provide fresh water even when under repair; city subdivisions; ridiculously elaborate public works buildings, including temples and several markets that could hold 60,000 people each; complex systems of water management that regulated the water levels of Lake Texcoco and controlled the salinity of the water; bottled water; public baths; sixty-foot wide bridges radiating to the mainland; a zoo; a botanical garden; and two different aquariums.
Hernan Cortes and his men killed 240,000 people, including civilians after the city had surrendered, raided everything they could find, raped and murdered the women and children, and then destroyed most of what was left. The loss of Tenochtitlan is like if the United States invaded France, captured Paris, killed 80% of the population, bombed the Louvre, tore down the Eiffel Tower, and left the bodies of 1.76 million people on the Champs Élysée.
