Fun fact: Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization

Oxford University was founded in 1096, while the capital Tenochtitlán, considered the beginning of the Aztec civilization, was founded in 1325.

The Oxford University website notes that no one knows the exact date of the university's founding, but they do know teaching took place in 1096 and became more popular when King Henry II banned English students from studying. at the University of Paris in 1167. After more than two centuries since its founding and development, in 1249, Oxford became a full-fledged university with three colleges: University, Balliol and Merton .

The Mexicans left their homeland of Aztlan for Mexico.

So there is a popular story that Oxford University is older than the Aztecs. However, about the origin, the Aztecs or Mexica, according to legend, after the guardian god brought them out of prison in the Middle Ages to the area of ​​Lake Tezcoco which is the central region of modern Mexico. The Mexica Indians were the dominant ethnic group, ruling the Aztec Empire from their capital city at Tenochtitlán in the valley of Mexico.

Combining legend with archaeological records and historical facts suggests that they descended from nomadic hunter-gatherers known as the Chichimeca and moved to the Valley of Mexico from their homeland of Aztlan, possibly to the east. northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is believed that after about two centuries of migration, the Mexica arrived in the Valley of Mexico around 1250.

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The purpose of this article is not to compare civilizations but to give us a better understanding of the past. Imagining events in world history can become confusing when one considers what happened simultaneously in the past in the Old World and the New World.

Finally, you may be surprised to learn that although Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, it is not the oldest university still in operation. This title again goes to Al-Qarawiyyin University in Fes, Morocco, founded by a woman named Fathima Al-Fihri in 859.