Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire — teaching at Oxford began in 1096, while the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325, which means Oxford was already more than two centuries old by the time the civilization that built one of the most sophisticated cities of the medieval world had even begun

In 1096, scholars were already teaching in the streets of Oxford, in the kingdom of William II, the son of William the Conqueror. England had been under Norman rule for thirty years, the Domesday Book had been compiled ten years earlier, and the First Crusade had just been declared by Pope Urban II at Clermont. [...] The post Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire — teaching at Oxford began in 1096, while the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325, which means Oxford was alrea