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Teotihuacan was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city
located in the Basin of Mexico, 30 miles (48 km)
northeast of modern-day Mexico City, which is today known as the site
of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in
the pre-Columbian Americas.
Apart from the pyramids, Teotihuacan is also anthropologically significant for
its complex, multi-family residential compounds, the Avenue of the Dead, and
the small portion of its vibrant murals that have been
exceptionally well-preserved. Additionally, Teotihuacan produced a thin orange
pottery style that spread through Mesoamerica.
The city is thought to have been established around
100 BC and continued to be built until about AD 250. The city may have
lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries AD. At its zenith, perhaps
in the first half of the 1st
millennium AD, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the
pre-Columbian Americas, with a population of perhaps 125,000 or more, placing
it among the largest cities of the world in this period. Teotihuacan began as a
new religious center in the Mexican Highland around the first century AD. This
city came to be the largest and most populated center in the New World.
Teotihuacan was even home to multi-floor apartment compounds built to
accommodate this large populatiaon. The civilization and cultural complex
associated with the site is also referred to as Teotihuacan or Teotihuacano. [Wiki]
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