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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire — and not narrowly. Teaching at Oxford existed by 1096, while Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325 and the Aztec Empire proper in 1428, by which point Oxford had been running for more than three centuries.
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- Teaching existed at Oxford by 1096.
- Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325; the Aztec Empire proper began in 1428.
- Oxford had been teaching for over three centuries before the empire existed at all.
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