Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Why it is true
Teaching at Oxford began around the year ten ninety-six, while the Aztec Empire was officially founded with the alliance of Tenochtitlan in the year fourteen twenty-eight, more than three centuries later.
Source: British Museum
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