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Originally Posted by JManc
New Amsterdam and Mexico City were new cities built by a new civilization on or near an earlier settlement they superseded. Phoenix has been continuously inhabited for about 2,000 years and its name literally describes a city born from the ruins of a former civilization but the city as we know it is only about 150 years old.
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I agree. I'm struggling to justify that Tenochtitlan is the same thing as Mexico City if we don't say the same about many other places throughout North America. Any U.S. city that was founded pre-Revolutionary War is most likely located in a region that was already occupied by indigenous Americans.