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At the time of Cortes's arrival, Tenochtitlán was a beautiful, wealthy, heavily populated metropolis that the speaker described as perhaps one of Earth's greatest.

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“for example, that when Cortes arrived,”
“Tenochtitlán was one of the greatest metropolis perhaps on Earth,”
“beautiful and rich and heavily populated.”
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