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The Aztecs built [[causeway]]s and [[chinampa]]s in Tenochtitlan due to its ___location in the [[Valley of Mexico|Mexico City basin]]. The agricultural innovation of the [[chinampa]] was a completely unique structure that used small squares of fertile ground that floated on the water as one of the first historical examples of irrigation techniques as well.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Herzog|first=Lawrence A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbBFO11V0IkC&pg=PR7|title=From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-United States Border|date=2001|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6643-2|language=en}}</ref>
Additionally, ball courts were a very popular construction of architecture used to play the ancient Mesoamerican ball game. Usually the ball court was constructed in a classic "I" shape that was the standard of the game. These courts were called tlachtli or tlachco, and the game itself went by the name of ullamaliztli. Not only were these courts and the game used for the thrill of sport but also held significant religious value as well. Typically, when Aztecs resided in a new settlement construction of a shrine to Huizilopochtli and a ball court directly next to it was among the first things built.<ref name=":0" />
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