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I'd also bet that of some of the additional book categories I mentioned earlier (more detailed land surveys, cenuses, botanical documents, etc), at least botanical books were probably a thing: The Aztec intentionally experimented with different growing conditions and uses for plants in royal botanical gardens which also served to stock medical herbs, and there were huge industries of soaps, shampoos, body lotions, colognes, perfumes, toothpastes, breath fresheners etc produced from them. Multiple Spanish sources praised Aztec medicine and botany, including the literal personal royal physician and naturalist of Philip II who traveled to Mexico,

I don't have a segue for this, but at least Tenochtitlan had a public schooling system. There's some disagreement in certain sources over some of the specifics but essentially both boys and girls, of all social classes, likely had to attend schools: Boys vs Girls got slightly different lessons (boys had physical labor and martial lessons that for girls were replaced by lessons on domestic skills), and nobles went to more elite schools which gave additional lessons (more advanced math and more detailed history, medicine, natural history, poetry, public speaking, ethics, theology as opposed to basic religion), alongside there being some more specialized schools, but it's an example of how learning was valued. Spanish sources also, again, compare Aztec priests and their hierarchies and formal organization to Catholic ones, and similarly note their pursuit of intellectualism and having fleshed out theology and piety, even if it was to heathen practices...

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Not in depth, but those does remind me of a relevant thing re: writing/intellectualism, which is that Mesoamerica also had quipu like knot devices for storing information, but there's very little info on the Mesoamerican ones

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