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As I understand it the evidence of Texcoco having formal written laws, depending on how strictly you define that, is sketchy, though as I mentioned Aztec cities, or at least some of them, did have formal judicial systems with courts and judges (actually even a series of appellate courts)... but Nezahualcoyotl actually got his education in Tenochtitlan!...

He's credited as designing aqueduct, channel, pool, levee/dike and other waterworks systems in Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, Texcotzingo, Chapultepec etc, and I have heard these are likely to have actually been his inventions, though I don't know on what basis. I want to focus on more literary and lyrical achievements here but I'll say waterworks are some of the most consistently impressive instances of Mesoamerican engineering: They didn't understand mechanical fluid dynamics to the extent Greeks or Romans did, but many of their aqueduct, canal, channel, reservoir etc systems and their switching mechanisms were very impressive and extensive even by their standards. Again I'll direct people to some posts by one of the people I work on shit with: x.com/Majora__Z/status/1741889576124256449 and x.com/Majora__Z/status/1662266071993180160

Fernando Ixtlilxochtil extensively describes the royal library, see pic, though A: he describes this as the library or the palace, but he's really covering a lot of different structures within the broader central precinct of the city; B: there's tons of additional text and descriptions cut out here, and C: again Fernando is glorifying stuff, so take it with a grain of salt (EX: "philosopher" was probably not a distinct occupation or concept in the same way it was in the Greek sense of the term), though I will stress here that even Spanish sources make pretty similar claims and comparisons, I'll post some excerpts further down

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