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Aztec agriculture  

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  • Some of the most impressive technological achievements of ancient Mesoamerican societies involved increases in the scale, efficiency, and overall productivity of agricultural land use systems. In late pre-Hispanic times, Mesoamerican farmers devised creative ways to meet the subsistence demands of burgeoning populations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Aztec Agriculture]

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