A life in City on the Lake · composite, based on the record
A gardener, twelve
He tends the marigolds on his family's chinampa and poles the canoe to market before the sun is high.
The law of City on the Lake
The Mexica capital stood on an island in Lake Texcoco, joined to the shore by causeways and crossed by canals. Around it lay chinampas: long garden plots built up from the lake bed with mud and plants.
A life in City on the Lake · composite, based on the record
He tends the marigolds on his family's chinampa and poles the canoe to market before the sun is high.
Meanwhile, in the same age
