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>Europeans had advanced metallurgy,clocks ,eye glasses,the printing press ,domestic horses selectively breed for thousands of years and gun powder
Yes, and that's why I said throughout the post that Europeans definitely had better mechanical engineering and mathematics, and the specific ways the Mesoamericans were competitive with Classical Antiquity or medieval europe was the scale of water management infrastructure, sanitation, botany, and medicine
Correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked, metallurgy, clocks, glasses, printing presses, and horses don't have to do with aqueducts, botanical taxonomy, or medicine.
Also you really don't want to start a pissing contest with Mesoamerica when it comes to selective breeding and selection with domesticated stuff, Maize/corn is like the single most impressive example of that happening in human history and the fact that Aztec botanical gardens were used as sites of experimentation and study also supports that the region was (at least as other time of contact), doing actual experimental breeding rather then just selecting for the biggest/tastiest plants: We know that some of the gardens had different sections to emulate different biomes/ecosystems and they worked to get plants to grow in different conditions using those.
>Cope
Here's some maps comparing Teotihuacan and Rome itself in physical scale, plus the Ciudadela compound vs the Colosseum. Rome was absolutely more populated then Teotihuacan, but Teotihuacan would have been as populated as some of the other largest roman cities: A 18~ sqkm area within Teotihuacan had around 100,000 people, the arguably full 37sqkm area probably had more like 125k, though I haven't seen a paper specifically on that wider area with newer methodology yet unlike the smaller area
