>>520259419
mexicans cities had it. so why did it take christian europe longer than pagan mexicans to have access to clean drinking water?

its because christianity was a jewish mode of warfare and they were busying plundering all the resources for themselves. too busy building monuments to jews to care about shit like clean drinking water or places you could piss and shit instead of a chamberpot youd dump out into the middle of the street from a second story window as theyre trying to call out "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD"

>>520240000
>they were very much behind european civilizations tho.
oh please,
Tenochtitlan wasn't a "primitive" village—it was a marvel that stunned Europeans accustomed to their own disease-ridden warrens.Bottom Line
Larger? Undeniably yes—by population and urban footprint.
More sophisticated? In public health, hydraulic engineering, cleanliness, and planned urbanism: yes, objectively superior. Europe wouldn't match Tenochtitlan's sanitation until the 19th century (e.g., Bazalgette's London sewers, 1850s).
Sources:

Smith, The Aztecs (2012);
Rojas, Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire (2012);
Mundy, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan (2015);
Spanish primary accounts (Cortés/Díaz, tr. in The Conquest of New Spain).