Abstract
Located 37 km from Mexico City, during the first part of the first millennium AD, Teotihuacan was one of the world’s largest and most populated cities. The city controlled the obsidian mines and developed far-reaching economic and political interactions, especially with the Classic Maya dynasties, Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca and the Mexican Gulf Coast. Teotihuacan-made pottery and jewelry along with talud-tablero architectural style and the cult of the Feathered Serpent and Rain gods was spread throughout Mesoamerica.
From the first century CE, the city was carefully planned. Its street grid and main ceremonial architecture were precisely aligned to revoke the concepts of the Teotihuacan worldview.
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Iwaniszewski, S. (2015). Astronomy at Teotihuacan. In: Ruggles, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_59
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