Looks like someone missed the point: there's a huge difference living/building on an artificial island and living/building on volcanic soil.https://twitter.com/StabilizedDark/status/911492519560601601 …
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Not to say pre-colonization earthquakes didn't cause damage in Tenochtitlan. But for the most part, the island literally rode through it.
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The Aztec didn't build Tenochtitlán on soft soil. They didn't build on soil at all. The marvelous city was built on artificial-ish island.
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The Aztec created floating islands for just about everything. This, for example, is an artist's rendition of floating crop gardens for food.pic.twitter.com/7WdlABg50g
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Back to earthquakes, though. You can see the effect of the Puebla/Morelos earthquake in Mexico City's Xochimilco:https://twitter.com/conecora1/status/910217949591502849?lang=en …
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It looks scary. It is scary. But you can see how people are riding out the waves from the earthquake, which was epicentered 75 miles away.
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Because they couldn't respect indigenous knowledge, The Spanish drained Lake Texcoco; *they* decided to build on volcanic, unstable soil.
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I've been under the weather and was moving fast in my previous colonization/earthquake thread. I did have some mistakes. But....
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Several people have responded that the Aztecs were the ones who were so backward, they built on Lake Texcoco. They're missing the point.
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You wanna correct me/mention that Lake Texoco was saltwater? That there was more than one lake, several were freshwater? Cool. Please do.
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But stay out of my mentions if you're only here to make the point that Spanish colonization was somehow a great thing for progress.
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Colonization is, quite literally, the foundation on which environmental degradation is built.
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