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4. Tenochtitlan
4．特諾奇提蘭（Tenochtitlan）
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec Empire. It was built on an island surrounded by Lake Texcoco deep inside the jungles of Central America. By the time the Spanish Conquistadors were aware of its existence, the population was around 200,000. This was a city very different from what the Europeans were used to. Founded in 1325 AD, the Aztec capital was joined to the mainland by three causeways. It was laid out in straight street grids and encompassed enormous pyramids at its center, which were surrounded by the skulls of the dead and elaborate ceremonial sculptures.
特諾奇提蘭曾是阿茲臺克帝國（Aztec Empire）的首都。它位于中美洲叢林深處的一個島上，周圍環(huán)繞著特斯科科湖（Lake Texcoco）。當(dāng)時西班牙征服者已經(jīng)知道它的存在，它的人口大約是20萬。特諾奇提蘭與歐洲城市大不相同。阿茲臺克首都建立在公元前1325年，由三座堤道連接到大陸。城市街道筆直，縱橫交錯，中心是巨大的金字塔，金字塔周圍布滿了死人頭骨和精心制作的祭祀雕塑。
With only a handful of men, Herman Cortez managed to take over the city in 1521. It’s true that they were wielding firearms and had help from other local tribes, but if it hadn’t been for the frenzy of human sacrifice to appease the gods and the scourge of smallpox, it’s likely they would have never succeeded. In any case, the capital city was conquered and razed to the ground by the Spanish, only for them to build present-day Mexico City on the same spot.
1521年，帶著寥寥幾個士兵，赫爾曼·科爾特斯（Herman Cortez）占領(lǐng)了這座城市。盡管他們火力全開，獲得了當(dāng)?shù)夭柯涞闹С郑钊思漓胍鸬膽嵑抟约疤旎ǖ乃僚皡s是他們?nèi)〉脛倮年P(guān)鍵因素。無論如何，西班牙人攻占了特諾奇提蘭并且將它夷為平地，只是為了在同一地點建立現(xiàn)在的墨西哥城而已。
