Ancient Aztec floating gardens that fed 200 000 destroyed by Spanish in 1519 called Chinampas

The Ancient Aztec's reclaimed swampy marsh land to feed a vast city in the middle of lake Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City. It was the biggest and best-fed city in the world, and completely surrounded by water.

They called them Chinampas, floating gardens

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[smoodcruz]

Amazing- those lazy-minded politicians, especially in my part of the world the Caribbean need to take note. Nothing is impossible.

[spacebetweenthespace]

Fantastic information on the ancient Aztec, the floating gardens must of been a wonderful sight. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏽

[PsychicIsaacs]

The Chinampas may have been looted, but they were not utterly destroyed, as there are still Chinampas in Mexico City to this day.

[lunazet]

Nice video, too short tho.
BTW the lake was called "Texcoco" and the city was "Tenochtitlán"
Oh, and if its any consolation we still have chinampas in Xochimilco, mostly used to farm flowers. Although we are slowly destroying it too :c

[gcwelds]

Smart on another level and environment friendly 👌

[crinna]

The purple flowers in the model were representing amaranth I believe. Nice video, good length, very descriptive

[Iziireal]

Thank you my brother.
I'm thinking about making a floating garden.

[staticsnow]

1. Tenochtitlan was a very big city, but not nearly the biggest city in the world as you say.

2. The Spanish did not “order the destruction of the chinampas, ” nor were all of them destroyed. The Spanish, while the leaders of the war against the Mexica, comprised a very small minority of the forces besieging the city. Most of the destruction and massacre of the city was carried about by the Tlaxcalans and other native allies of Cortés, and the destruction of buildings was in many cases a response to the Mexica’s tendency to perch on the azoteas and balconies, hurling missiles down on their enemies.

[thisrandomnoob]

Narrator guy's voice is so satisfying

[trinsit]

Great breakdown. Thank you. Does anyone know of any large scale projects going on to recreate these? I want to use these videos as a blue print to repeat it myself. Love the idea. Off the top of my head, Louisiana through Florida is all good swampy areas. They could actually be turned into this!

[xan]

Great video, thank you. I recommend Graham Hancock's book trilogy about the Spanish conquest of Mexico- "War God"

[Miles.Morales]

I like to think those pyramids are quantum computers.

[kenyonbissett]

Who were the real barbarians ~ the Aztecs or the Spanish?

[lucykelly]

Controllers control. In Europe, they destroied all of the fruit trees in narure, and only kept them in orchards. Then, people had to work for the controllers, to buy access to the food. Did this happen where you were? Did the farmers there destroy the food elsewhere? You probably had controllers, too. You seem to have happy memories of those times, though. But then, so do the people whose societies had human sacrifice. I suppose it takes all kinds to make a world.

[robertbartlett]

Please change the default language setting, for some reason the autosubtitles seem to think this video is in Turkish.

[mynameisleeyesitis]

Is cost of labour the barrier to this method being trialled on reservoirs in developed nations?

[beepollinatingplasticflowe]

If I buy land in Florida and it floods do I own the water area

[rickecheverria]

Just because a Spanish solider thought the gardens were floating be cause of viewing from a distance over 500 years ago does not mean that actually float, which they do not...

[daliafabre]

Bruhh what are 3 qualities of the chinampas thats my schoolwork questionnn🥲

[majolikahenry]

Good video, but why is the voice so very sleepy?