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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| Ancient Mexican city | WIKI |
| Teotihuacan /texc9xaaxcbx8coxcax8atixcbx90wxc9x99xcbx88kxc9x91xcbx90n/[1] (Spanish: Teotihuacxc3xa1n) (Spanish pronunciation:xc2xa0[teotiwa'kan] (listen); modern Nahuatl pronunciationxc2xa0(helpxc2xb7info)) is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers (25xc2xa0mi) northeast of modern-day Mexico City. | WIKI |
| At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the first millennium (1 AD to 500 AD), Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas, with a population estimated at 125,000 or more,[2][3] making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch. | WIKI |
| The city covered eight square miles; 80 to 90 percent of the total population of the valley resided in Teotihuacan. | WIKI |
| The city is thought to have been established around 100 BC, with major monuments continuously under construction until about 250 AD. | WIKI |
| [2] The city may have lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries AD, but its major monuments were sacked and systematically burned around 550 AD. | WIKI |
| The city and the archeological site are located in what is now the San Juan Teotihuacxc3xa1n municipality in the State of Mxc3xa9xico, approximately 40 kilometers (25xc2xa0mi) northeast of Mexico City. | WIKI |
| The name Texc5x8dtxc4xabhuacxc4x81n was given by the Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs centuries after the fall of the city around 550 CE. | WIKI |
| The original name of the city is unknown, but it appears in hieroglyphic texts from the Maya region as puh, or "Place of Reeds". | WIKI |
| In the Mesoamerican concept of urbanism, Tollan and other language equivalents serve as a metaphor, linking the bundles of reeds and rushes that formed part of the lacustrine environment of the Valley of Mexico and the large gathering of people in a city. | WIKI |
| Archeologist Veronica Ortega of the National Institute of Anthropology and History states that the city appears to have actually been named "Teohuacan", meaning "City of the Sun" rather than "City of the Gods", as the current name suggests. | WIKI |
| Period I occurred between 200 - 1 BCE and marks the genesis of a real city. | WIKI |
| During this period, Teotihuacan began to grow into a city as farmers working on the hillside of the Teotihuacan Valley began to move down into the valley, coalescing around the abundant springs of Teotihuacan. | WIKI |
| Factors influencing this growth include the destruction of other settlements due to volcanic eruptions and the economic pull of the expanding city. | WIKI |
| Period III lasted from the year 350 to 650 AD and is the so-called classical period of Teotihuacan, during which the city reached the apogee of its influence in Mesoamerica. | WIKI |
| Its population was estimated at 125,000 inhabitants, or more, and the city was among the largest cities of the ancient world, containing 2,000 buildings within an area of 18 square kilometers. | WIKI |
| The city's elite housing compounds, those clustered around the Street of the Dead, bear many burn marks and archeologists hypothesize that the city experienced civil strife that hastened its decline. | WIKI |
| [17] Factors that also led to the decline of the city included disruptions in tributary relations, increased social stratification, and power struggles between the ruling and intermediary elites. | WIKI |
| [18] The city was already in ruins by the time of the Aztecs. | WIKI |
| Since Toltec civilization flourished centuries after Teotihuacan, the people could not have been the city's founders. | WIKI |
| [18] This allowed for the formation of channels, and subsequently canoe traffic, to transport food from farms around the city. | WIKI |
| This was not the Teotihuacan state; it was a group of the Feathered-Serpent people, thrown out from the city. | WIKI |
| The city reached its peak in 450 CE, when it was the center of a powerful culture whose influence extended through much of the Mesoamerican region. | WIKI |
| At its peak, the city covered over 30xc2xa0km2 (over 11+1xe2x81x842 square miles), and perhaps housed a population of 150,000 people, with one estimate reaching as high as 250,000. | WIKI |
| [26] Various districts in the city housed people from across the Teotihuacano region of influence, which spread south as far as Guatemala. | WIKI |
| Notably absent from the city are fortifications and military structures. | WIKI |
| The city was a center of industry, home to many potters, jewelers, and craftsmen. | WIKI |
| Scholars had originally thought that invaders attacked the city in the 7th or 8th century, sacking and burning it. | WIKI |
| They say the invasion theory is flawed, because early archeological work on the city was focused exclusively on the palaces and temples, places used by the upper classes. | WIKI |
| Because all of these sites showed burning, archeologists concluded that the whole city was burned. | WIKI |
| Archeological evidence suggests that Teotihuacan was a multi-ethnic city, and while the official languages used by Teotihuacan is unknown, Totonac and Nahua, early forms of which were spoken by the Aztecs, seem to be highly plausible. | WIKI |
| [43] The eruption of Popocatepetl in the middle of the first century preceded that of Xitle, and is believed to have begun the aforementioned degradation of agricultural lands, and structural damage to the city; Xitle's eruption further instigated the abandonment of Cuicuilco. | WIKI |
| The laboring classes, which in and of itself was divided, was constituted from farmers and skilled craftsmen to the outer rural population of the city. | WIKI |
| [48] The residences of the rural population of the city were in enclaves between the middle-class residences or the periphery of the city while smaller encampments filled with earthenware from other regions, also suggest that merchants were situated in their own encampments as well. | WIKI |
| The victims were probably enemy warriors captured in battle and brought to the city for ritual sacrifice to ensure the city could prosper. | WIKI |
| Teotihuacan was a large pre-historic city that underwent massive population growth and sustained it over most of the city's occupancy. | WIKI |
| In the 100 AD the population could be estimated around 60,000-80,000, after 200 years of the city's occupancy, within 20xc2xa0km2 of the city. | WIKI |
| During 400 to 500 AD, the Xolalpan period, the cityxe2x80x99s population was estimated to be 100,000 to 200,000 people. | WIKI |
| [62] These high numbers continued until the city started to decline between 600 and 700 AD. | WIKI |
| It showed that Teotihuacan was a multiethnic city that was broken up into areas of different ethnicities and workers. | WIKI |
| The high infant mortality rate was important within the neighborhood, and the city at large, as there are a large number of perinatal skeletons at Teopancazco. | WIKI |
| This suggests that the population of Teotihuacan was sustained and grew due to people coming into the city, rather than the population reproducing. | WIKI |
| The influx of people came from surrounding areas, bringing different ethnicities to the city. | WIKI |
| The laboratories produced tools or objects of obsidian of various types, intended for commercial transactions beyond the geographical boundaries of the city, such as figurines, blades, spikes, knife handles, jewelry or ornaments etc. | WIKI |
| Obsidian came mainly from the mines of Pachuca (Teotihuacan) and its processing was the most important industry in the city, which had acquired the monopoly in the trade of obsidian in the broader Middle American region. | WIKI |
| After the fall of the city, various squatters lived on the site. | WIKI |
| During Aztec times, the city was a place of pilgrimage and identified with the myth of Tollan, the place where the sun was created. | WIKI |
| By the end of 2009 archeologists of the INAH located the entrance to the tunnel that leads to galleries under the pyramid, where remains of rulers of the ancient city might have been deposited. | WIKI |
| The city's urban-ceremonial space is considered one of the most impressive achievements of the pre-Columbian New world. | WIKI |
| At the north end of the city, the Boulevard of the dead ends in the "Pyramid of the Moon " (Piramide de la Luna), surrounded laterally by platforms-ramps and lower pyramids. | WIKI |
| The city's broad central avenue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name Miccoatli), is flanked by impressive ceremonial architecture, including the immense Pyramid of the Sun (third largest in the World after the Great Pyramid of Cholula and the Great Pyramid of Giza). | WIKI |
| A recreation of a map of the city featured in the June 1967 issue of Scientific American and the captioned source. | WIKI |
| This area was a large plaza surrounded by temples that formed the religious and political center of the city. | WIKI |
| Most of the common people lived in large apartment buildings spread across the city. | WIKI |
| The central part of the city, including the Avenue of the Dead, conforms to the orientation of the Sun Pyramid, while the southern part reproduces the orientation of the Ciudadela. | WIKI |
| Pecked-cross circles throughout the city and in the surrounding regions served as a way to design the urban grid, and as a way to read their 260-day calendar. | WIKI |
| The urban grid had great significance to city planners when constructing Teotihuacan, as the cross is pecked into the ground in the Pyramid of the Sun in specific places throughout Teotihuacan in precise degrees and angles over three km in distance. | WIKI |
| The direction of the axes of the crosses donxe2x80x99t point to an astronomical North and South direction, but instead point to their own cityxe2x80x99s North. | WIKI |
| They all have axes that are in line with the city structures of the region. | WIKI |
| This was probably the cityxe2x80x99s marketplace. | WIKI |
| In May 2021, the Secretariat of Culture announced that a construction crew had been bulldozing the northern outskirts of the city ruins in order to develop the land for an amusement park, despite three-months worth of orders from the government to stop work. | WIKI |
| The cityxe2x80x99s urban plan integrated natural elements of the Teotihuacan Valley, such as the San Juan River, whose course was altered to cross the Avenue of the Dead. | UNESCO |
| This north-south oriented main reference axis of the city is lined with monumental buildings and complexes, from which the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, as well as the Great Compound with the Temple of Quetzalcoatl (also known as Temple of the Plumed Serpent) stand out. | UNESCO |
| One characteristic of the cityxe2x80x99s civil and religious architecture is the "talud-tablero", which became a distinctive feature of this culture. | UNESCO |
| The city is considered a model of urbanization and large-scale planning, which greatly influenced the conceptions of contemporary and subsequent cultures. | UNESCO |
| At the peak of its development the city stretched out over 36xc2xa0km2. | UNESCO |
| The city was razed by fire and subsequently abandoned during the 7th century. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi): Following the destruction and abandonment of the city towards 650 A.D., the ruins were imbued with legend. | UNESCO |