Teotihuacan
Ancient site
A city of pyramids so old that even the Aztecs did not know who built it.
Around the year 400 Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the world, with perhaps a hundred thousand people. A broad avenue runs through it, with a great pyramid at the end and a greater one beside it.
Then the city was abandoned. When the Aztecs found the ruins centuries later, they thought only gods could have built them, and gave the place its name: where the gods were made.
- the largest pyramid is high
- 65 m
- people lived there, roughly
- 100,000
- the main avenue, and more
- 2 km
- 1
Nobody knows what the people who lived here called their city, or what language they spoke.
- 2
The avenue is called the Avenue of the Dead, because the Aztecs took the mounds along it for tombs.
- 3
The walls were once plastered and painted bright red.
Question 1 of 2
Who gave Teotihuacan its name?
- TikalA city of the Maya in the jungle of Guatemala, with temples that rise above the trees.
- Chichén ItzáA Maya city with a pyramid that works as a calendar.
- MississippiThe great river that runs down the middle of the United States.
- Grand CanyonA river spent millions of years carving this giant gorge.
It is in Mexico.
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