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What was the largest city in 1500?

The southern part of the Mexican Highlands is considered the historical core of Mexico. When the Spaniards first got there in 1519, they saw a big city. It was the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, the largest city in the world at that time. At least 300 thousand people lived in the city (for comparison, in London at that time - 200 thousand people).

Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325. The city stood on an island in the center of a large lake, on the banks of which there were smaller cities. The lake was salty, and pipes stretched to the cities, through which water flowed from the neighboring mountains.

The Spaniards destroyed the cities to their very foundations. They filled up both the lake and the canals surrounding the capital. However, it was not the Spaniards who did this, but the Indians themselves, whom the conquerors turned into slaves. On the site of Tenochtitlan, another city grew up - Mexico City.

In modern Mexico City, a huge city, the capital of Mexico, one sixth of all Mexicans live. More than half of all enterprises in the country work here.

In the center of Mexico City, on Constitution Square, there is one of the palaces of the Aztec emperor Montezuma and an Aztec temple in which human sacrifices were made. Both the palace and the temple were restored.

The widest and greenest street in Mexico City is Paseo de la Reforma. This street is a copy of the Champs Elysees in Paris. It stretches for many kilometers and crosses Chapultepec Park, where the Aztecs rested. In the center of the park stands an ancient palace where the Spanish rulers lived.

On the site of another large park, Alameda, there was a market under the Aztecs, and during the time of the Spaniards, a square where heretics were burned. That's what it's called - Burning Square.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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What would happen on Earth if our planet did not have a moon?

The gravitational influence of the Moon has a huge impact on many processes occurring on Earth.

The French astronomer J. Lascar tried to estimate, on the basis of mathematical modeling, what would happen on Earth if our planet did not have the Moon.

The main conclusion made by the scientist is that the attraction of the Moon stabilizes the climate of our planet. Only by its proximity to the Earth, the Moon limits the oscillations of the axis of the globe relative to the plane of the ecliptic. The tilt of the axis, as you know, determines the change of seasons, that is, the amount of solar energy arriving at certain latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

J. Lascar's calculations showed that, if there were no Moon, the axis of the globe could change its inclination with respect to the ecliptic plane in a very significant range - from 0 to 85 degrees (at present, the axis is tilted by 23,5 degrees). With an inclination angle of 85 degrees, the picture would be as follows: the Sun would stand almost at its zenith over one of the earth's poles for a long time, and the opposite hemisphere would remain immersed in darkness for just as long. The temperature difference in the hemispheres would cause monstrous hurricanes and rains, not inferior in strength to the biblical flood.

Even such a dramatic question is legitimate: would life have originated on our planet if it had not had a satellite - the Moon?

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