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6/30/2025, 8:35:15 AM
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The Mesoamericans probably had land surveys and censuses. All the surviving ones date to the post contact period and show heavy signs of European influence so you could argue that style of codex was exclusively post contact, but say the Oztoticpac land map still has Prehispanic style "writing" for land plots and crop yields which could have likely been a convention in pre contact documents, and written accounts by Spanish and Native sources mention Prehispanic books which count revenue and yields: The Mendoza shows this for tax payments sent to Tenochtitlan, for example, so it being a thing with local production yields, land ownership, and censues is pretty possible too (I forget if we have mentions of prehispanic population counting or not, I vaugely recall them maybe coming up but I'm not super confident(
The Mesoamericans probably had land surveys and censuses. All the surviving ones date to the post contact period and show heavy signs of European influence so you could argue that style of codex was exclusively post contact, but say the Oztoticpac land map still has Prehispanic style "writing" for land plots and crop yields which could have likely been a convention in pre contact documents, and written accounts by Spanish and Native sources mention Prehispanic books which count revenue and yields: The Mendoza shows this for tax payments sent to Tenochtitlan, for example, so it being a thing with local production yields, land ownership, and censues is pretty possible too (I forget if we have mentions of prehispanic population counting or not, I vaugely recall them maybe coming up but I'm not super confident(
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