{"id":68,"date":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/oxford-is-older-than-the-aztec-empire\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","slug":"oxford-is-older-than-the-aztec-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/oxford-is-older-than-the-aztec-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dates that seem far apart can overlap in ways that change how we picture the past.<\/p>\n<h2>Teaching begins<\/h2>\n<p>There is evidence of teaching at Oxford as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n<h2>A city rises<\/h2>\n<p>The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325, more than two centuries later.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oxford had been teaching students for generations before Tenochtitlan existed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Looking at timelines<\/h2>\n<p>Putting events side by side is one of the best ways to understand how long ago they really happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates that seem far apart can overlap in ways that change how we picture the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}