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.
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The Maya classic era: cities of the calendar
Maya city-states developed the most sophisticated pre-Columbian script and astronomical calendars, recording dynasties and sky events in stone.
Tenochtitlan rises from Lake Texcoco
The Mexica built their capital on an island, engineering causeways, aqueducts and chinampa gardens into one of the world's largest cities.
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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.
The Maya classic era: cities of the calendar
Maya city-states developed the most sophisticated pre-Columbian script and astronomical calendars, recording dynasties and sky events in stone.
Tenochtitlan rises from Lake Texcoco
The Mexica built their capital on an island, engineering causeways, aqueducts and chinampa gardens into one of the world's largest cities.