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The gridiron street pattern was first introduced to Middle America by Europeans from what country?

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The Spanish did but the streets were not alinged north and south because adobe was their building material so streets were tilted on the "Queen's Axis" so the sun shined on all four sides of buildings keeping the mud hard so buildings wouldn't collapse.

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