History of the United States I / Unit 1 USH1 0005 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Teotihuacan
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The idea
Teotihuacan peaked around five hundred CE, thirty miles north-east of modern Mexico City, holding over one hundred thousand people in more than twenty-two hundred apartment compounds.
In practice
The Pyramid of the Sun at two hundred feet, among over one hundred temples.
Where people slip
Its ethnicity is debated and possibly multiethnic. Graves at the Temple of the Feathered Serpent suggest human sacrifice.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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