IT HAD A POPULATION OF BETWEEN 120,000 TO 200,000 PEOPLE. AS TEOTIHUACÁN’S POWER SPREAD, A PEOPLE CALLED THE MAYA (MY • UH) BUILT ANOTHER CIVI- LIZATION IN THE STEAMY RAIN FORESTS OF THE YUCATÁN PENINSULA (YOO • KUH • TAN).
Cuzco North of Mesoamerica, Native Americans developed their own ways of living. Farming in what would someday be the United States began in the American Southwest.