From the writing that did survive, we know about some of the ways that Aztecs understood earthquakes; they were referred to as movements.
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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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