2010 Summer Program
This series began 10 years ago with the construction of Venice. In 1519, when Cortes and his men first beheld Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, they thought they saw a city of dreams. Constructed out of a lake in 1325, where Mexico City sits today. Tenochtitlan became one of the largest and most carefully planned cities in the world. Join the class in constructing this lake city with its broad causeways, canals and bridges, palaces, temples and zoo. Construct your own house and courtyard, family, boats and floating farm. Learn their weaving and pottery. Guided by Aztec codexes and Michael Coe, the Yale archaeologist who has studied the culture for 50 years.
