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Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan, located in the Basin of Central Mexico, was the largest, most influential, and most revered city in the history of the New World. It flourished in Mesoamerica's Golden Age, the Classic Period of the first millennium CE. Dominated...
![Maya Civilization](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2446.jpg?v=1722728344)
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Maya Civilization
The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...
![Teotihuacan Nobleman](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4097.jpg?v=1604363403)
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Teotihuacan Nobleman
A fragment of a fresco from Teotihuacan depicting a nobleman. Mexico, c. 500-550 CE. The figure carries an incense bag. (St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri)
![Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3630.jpg?v=1639849501)
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Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan
The Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Constructed c. 100-150 CE the avenue leads from the Temple of the Moon across the city passing the Temple of the Sun, visible on the left.
![Teotihuacan Panorama](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13334.jpg?v=1702262343)
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Teotihuacan Panorama
The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico, c. 100 CE. Teotihuacan was the largest, most influential, and certainly most revered city in the history of the New World, and it flourished in Mesoamerica's Golden Age, the Classic Period of the...
![Teotihuacan Old God](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4085.jpg?v=1599373805)
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Teotihuacan Old God
A basalt brazier in the form of the Teotihuacan Old God. Teotihuacan, Early Classic Period, c. 400-500 CE. (St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri)
![Tlaloc](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1402.jpg?v=1694649003)
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Tlaloc
Tláloc (pron. Tla-loc) is one of the most important and formidable gods in the Aztec pantheon. He was considered the god of rain, water, lightning and agriculture. Tlaloc was seen as both a benevolent god providing life-giving rain but also...
![Zapotec Civilization](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2127.png?v=1709346543)
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Zapotec Civilization
The Zapotecs, known as the 'Cloud People', dwelt in the southern highlands of central Mesoamerica, specifically, in the Valley of Oaxaca, which they inhabited from the late Preclassic period to the end of the Classic period (500 BCE - 900...
![Cuicuilco](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5272.jpg?v=1688351224)
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Cuicuilco
Cuicuilco is an ancient settlement site in central Mexico, now located in southern Mexico City. Prominent in the late pre-Classic period, around 500 BCE, it is noted for its large circular temple mound, one of the earliest monumental structures...
![Temple of the Moon, Teotihuacan](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3629.jpg?v=1714908368)
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Temple of the Moon, Teotihuacan
The Temple of the Moon at Teotihuacan, Mexico, c. 150 CE.