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How were the Aztec able to develop productive farm fields in swampy lands around Tenochtitlan?

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Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

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