Thanks in part to the greed of America's 1% and the GOP

You just have to know where to look.

there is lots of stone and very little greenery.

the original Spanish descriptions of Tenochtitlan. The Spaniards were awestruck by the city and compared it to Venice due to the city's waterways for travel, which also had roads beside them for land travel.

The zoo was maintained by the royal family, as well as an institution for people born with physical disabilities.

They had a class system maintained by different schools by class to train people in skills and general knowledge needed for their class. Only the upper classes of priests and royals got a complete education. Class divisions extended to clothing, similar to European sumptuary laws that regulated clothing by class. Upper clsses wore soft, refined cotton while lower classes wore a coarser cotton cloth.

Interestingly, though, the emperor was required to marry a woman from the lower classes.

I first learned of it. Don"t know the reason for the requirement to marry a woman from the lower classes. Might have had origins in religious mythology, or might have been a symbol that the emperor was ruler of all the people, or for some other reason. Most cultures, past and present, have customs snd rules to prevent inbreeding. Europeans did, too. The royals and nobles just ignored the rules and got religious dispensations when a marriage between relatives was politically or financially advantageous.

Even if it was inadvertent.

It conquered for the Europeans all throughout the Americas - it basically emptied the PNW prior to settlement.

What was lost there, and how little remains.