20 Mind-Bending Facts That Rewrite What We Think We Know

A lecture in medieval England and a temple rising from Lake Texcoco do not usually share the same mental shelf. However, teaching existed at Oxford by 1096, while the Aztec Empire as a regional power came much later, after the rise of Tenochtitlan and the Triple Alliance in the 14th and 15th centuries. That order surprises people because universities feel modern in spirit, while the Aztecs are often placed in a distant pre-Columbian past. The dates say otherwise.