What did the Spanish call Tenotchtitlan? Why?Please watch the following short movie about Aztec Civilization of South America (about 10 minutes)...

When the Spanish came to Tenochtitlan, they called it the
Venice of the Americas. It was a very large city and was exceeded in size only by Paris,
Venice and Constantinople. The city had large buildings, a great infrastructure
crisscrossed by canals that provided a means of
transportation.

There were five lakes that had been
interconnected and dikes built to keep the sea water out. There were bridges that
interconnected the lakes and served many other important
purposes.

There were large marketplaces, the biggest of
which had over 40,000 people trading every day.

The
impressive masonry made Tenochtitlan a city that was admired by the Spanish conquers who
found it matching in stature to the largest cities in Europe.