What the Aztecs were doing was definitely taxation.” Smith has identified a bewilderingly complex system of at least 11 different types of taxes levied at the Aztec imperial and city-state level.

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The Aztec agricultural system relied on “ floating gardens ”—patches of seemingly self-sustaining land that appear to float along shallow bodies of water.