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Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire (now part of Mexico), map printed in Germany, 1524 AD
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Those buildings look very European. Pretty sure they didn't look like that.
European mapmaking of the time tended to portray detail-work with... well, European architectural conventions. The important bit is the layout.