Ancient Americas: Teotihuacan
The Ancients
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The Origins of Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan feels like a center, a city very much at the heart of this wider interconnected Mesoamerican world some 2,000 years ago. The reason we know that there are people from all over, for instance, there's a type of Gulf Coast house that is round and so we find these round houses and they are different than everybody else there. We find ceramics from other places at Teotihuacan, and we find writing from the Maya area that tells us that they were visiting Teotihuacans. They found that there were Maya elites living there, so very cosmopolitan.
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