Teotihuacan becomes the Americas' first metropolis
A planned city of perhaps 100,000 people with monumental pyramids, apartment compounds and apparent multiethnic governance rose in the Basin of Mexico.
Why it matters
Teotihuacan shows urbanism, state planning and long-distance trade emerging independently in Mesoamerica — a reminder that 'the city' is a human universal, invented more than once.
Related events
Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica — Teotihuacán