ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cuicuilco, Teotihuacan, Lake Texcoco
24 Mar 2016
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200 bc - ad 750) - highland mexico. Greatest, largest city in the pre-columbian world - surpassed only by the aztec capital. Population of 100,000 people or greater - most densely populated city in the americas and the. Very little in europe that would rival teotihuacan at this time. It was one of many cultures and political formations in ancient mesoamerica - it describes a cultural region that encompasses modern mexico, guatemala, belize and parts of honduras and el. Map of mesoamerica and location of the basin of mexico. Teotihuacan located in highlands of central mexico (outside of mexico city) Olmec, maya, aztec (tikal one of the largest ancient mayan cities) Teotihuacan is a highland site - 2200m above sea level in an area with a lot of geological activity. It was one of the first several major polities clustered around lake texcoco. Geologically - volatile area, volcanoes, relationship with landscape is very immediate.
