How The Aztecs Revolutionize Agriculture?

Like with any civilization, food cultivation is crucial. The Aztecs perfected a unique system called chinampas, a system to create an artificial land for farming and to live on. “Each chinampas could produce up to seven crops a year; whereas a farm on the main land could produce one crop.”(Scarre 209). It was designed by weaving sticks that would float in the water and piling weeds on top of them, then mud from the bottom of the lake was coated over the weeds creating the chinampas. This technique revolutionized farming.

Under the Emperor Ahuitzotl, the Aztecs embarked on the greatest constructed project. A massive pyramid at the center of Tenochtitlan, the Templo Mayor, the Great Temple. At the top of the massive pyramid sits two, small,