This city constructed a levee named for an allied ruler that split the freshwater and saltwater sections of a nearby lake.
One ruler of this city took his name from a mythical man-eating dog that lives underwater. The most famous ruler of this city had two zoos in his palace, one for birds of prey and the other for all other animals, that together employed over 300 people. This city constructed a levee named for an allied ruler that split the freshwater and saltwater sections of a nearby lake. This city was settled shortly after its founders were exiled for sacrificing the daughter of the leader of (*) Culhuacan and wearing her flayed skin. This city was divided into 4 sections called campans, and each campan was further split into 20 calpulli. The Hueyi Tzompantli ("WAY-yee tsohm-PAHN-tlee"), or "Great Skull Rack", of this city was estimated to contain 60,000 skulls from sacrificial victims, many of whom were probably killed on the Templo Mayor. Taken by the Spanish under HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, this is, for 10 points, what capital city of the Aztec Empire?
One ruler of this city took his name from a mythical man-eating dog that lives underwater.
Tenochtitlan