Teotihuacan: First City In The Americas (Wonders Of Man)
by Karl Ernest Meyer /
1973 / English / PDF
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Abandoned for twelve hundred years, Teotihuacan stands today as mute testimony to the genius of its unknown creators. The sprawling complex, begun around 100 B.C. the dusty tableland north of modern Mexico City, was both the first metropolis in the Americas and a remarkable example of city planning. At its height Teotihuacan encompassed some 2,600 major structures, including markets and apartment compounds clustered along spacious esplanades. A city of temples, it was dominated by two majestic altars set atop opposing pyramids. Its population was greater than that of Periclean Athens, and it exercised loose suzerainty over all of central Mexico and Honduras — the region scholars know as Mesoamerica
