In the Valley of Mexico, a planned city of broad avenues and apartment compounds grew around the Pyramid of the Sun and the Avenue of the Dead from about 100 BC and reached its height between about 200 and 550 AD, with perhaps 100,000 or more inhabitants. It was one of the six largest cities of the world. Teotihuacan traded obsidian and ceramics as far as the Maya region and influenced Tikal. The name, given by the Aztecs centuries later, means 'the place where the gods were created'. The city was burned and abandoned around 550 to 650, for reasons that are not understood.
Before and after
- 185 CEChinese astronomers record the supernova of 185
- 193 CEYear of the Five Emperors
- 2nd centuryConstruction of Aqueduct of Segovia
- 2nd centuryPublication of Book of Han
- c. 200sTeotihuacan becomes the largest city in the Americas
- 203 CEOrigins of Arch of Septimius Severus (Roman Forum)
- 212 CEConstitutio Antoniniana
- 216 CEConstruction of Baths of Caracalla
- from 220 CE to 280 CEThree Kingdoms
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