History

Articles

Three illustrations depicting traditional indigenous farming and harvesting techniques, accompanied by handwritten text in a historical or scholarly style.

How to Feed a Megacity Like the Aztecs

The chinampas that nourished Tenochtitlan may hold the key to better urban gardens.

By Reina Gattuso

Books

Book cover titled 'Chinampas: Their Role in Aztec Empire - Building & Expansion' by Alfred Aghajanian, depicting a stylized illustration of the Aztec chinampas farming system with Aztec people working on floating gardens, surrounded by water, with mountains and a city in the background.

Chinampas: Their Role in Aztec Empire - Building & Expansion an Academic Research

By Alfred Aghajanian

Chinampa Agricultural system, employed by Aztecs as the main form of agricultural system, has been shown as one of the most important variables in settlement of the nomadic Aztec tribes, expansion of the tribes, the Aztec state formation, and ultimately in Aztec empire-building and its expansion.