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- Teotihuacan was a city founded outside of modern Mexico City in 100 BCE and was known for its pyramids.
- Just 30 miles from modern day Mexico City lies the precolumbian Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan.
- An alternate explanation is that the Totonac people, who still remain today, founded Teotihuacan.
- This appears to be the case at Teotihuacan, although the mountain to which it is oriented is not visible from within the Teotihuacan complex due to a closer mountain ridge.
- This mural is from the Tetitla compound at Teotihuacan.
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- The Maya civilization participated in long distance trade with many other Mesoamerican cultures, including Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, and other groups in central and gulf-coast Mexico.
- It has been hypothesized that the decline of the Maya is related to the collapse of their intricate trade systems, especially those connected to the central Mexican city of Teotihuacán.
- Before there was a greater knowledge of the chronology of Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan was believed to have fallen during 700–750 CE, forcing the "restructuring of economic relations throughout highland Mesoamerica and the Gulf Coast."
- However, it is now believed that the strongest Teotihuacan influence was during the 4th and 5th centuries.
- In addition, the civilization of Teotihuacan started to lose its power, and maybe even abandoned the city, during 600–650 CE.
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- Archaeologist Laurette Sejourné, followed by the historian Enrique Florescano, argued that the "original" Tollan was probably Teotihuacán.
- Skeptics argue that the ancient city of Teotihuacán and the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan were much more influential sites for Mesoamerican culture than Tula.