Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT · mid-15th century
Texcotzingo (mid-15th century)
mid-15th century — Nezahualcoyotl’s hill retreat east of Texcoco, where channels, pools and baths were cut into the rock and fed by water brought from the mountains. It survives as physical evidence of the hydraulic skill credited to the ruler of Texcoco.
- When
- mid-15th century
- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- Aztec dikes, aqueducts and floods (chapter 8 of Norse and Aztecs)
- Atlas
- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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