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Dr. Christina Bueno's Speech On The City Of Tenochtitlan
Dr. Christina Bueno gave an informative and interesting speech on the history on archeology in Mexico. Other than taking a history of Latin America, I have not studied much of the ancient cultures in Mexico, but I was very interested in the material Dr. Bueno went over. In her speech, she goes over only three of the ten-thousand archeological sites in Mexico. My favorite one she went over was on the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. I was fascinated how the city was organized and just how enormous it was. In the speech, she mention that the city of Tenochtitlan at one point was much larger than the city of Rome. Moreover, I think this was the best part of the speech and instilled me with inspiration to travel to Mexico one day to see all the ancient

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