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When you think of the Aztecs...
...you probably don't think of compulsory education for all classes and both genders.
The whole set of Aztec pages is pretty interesting. Super-productive agriculture (tropics + natural hydroponics + lake mud soil + seedling transplant), a form of slavery even nicer than classical versions, rest stops every 10-15 km. Someone else claims women's rights and semi-elected leadership (clan elect elders, elders elect war leader and internal affairs leader) but there's no pointable source, and I note wikipedia saying daughters could be sold into sex slavery. Sons could be sold into slavery but you needed official designation of your son as incorrigible. Maybe the daughters too, I dunno.
The whole set of Aztec pages is pretty interesting. Super-productive agriculture (tropics + natural hydroponics + lake mud soil + seedling transplant), a form of slavery even nicer than classical versions, rest stops every 10-15 km. Someone else claims women's rights and semi-elected leadership (clan elect elders, elders elect war leader and internal affairs leader) but there's no pointable source, and I note wikipedia saying daughters could be sold into sex slavery. Sons could be sold into slavery but you needed official designation of your son as incorrigible. Maybe the daughters too, I dunno.