It was bigger than any European city of its time and was filled with botanical gardens, none existing in Europe.
Tenochtitlan was an enormous city that stunned the Europeans when they first saw it. It had public schools, universities, hospitals, a high level of social structure, and education was free. It was bigger than any European city of its time and was filled with botanical gardens, none existing in Europe. Streets were clean, unlike European cities with ankle-deep sewage. Aztec poetry and philosophy were even more abundant than the better-known Greek productions.