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Teotihuacan

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

TEOTIHUACAN

BY: CONNOR HUBBLE & CARLOS
Photo by thebarrowboy

Teotihuacan
300-700 CE
Located 20 minutes out of Mexico City.

They hade a lot of agriculture and good trade routs. Teotihuacán is the Pyramid of the Sun, the largest stone pyramid in pre-Columbian America. Trade routs were very important to them because they ended up fighting close villages

They believed in sun gods and preformed many sacrifices. Quetzalcóatl cut out the hearts of 1,600 gods, wrapped them in bundles, and offered them to the sun.

Photo by Travis S.

QUETZALCÓATL

  • He was the god of heaven and earth
  • Light and darkness
  • Life and death
  • Quetzal meant bird and coatl meant snake
Photo by Travis S.

Craftsmen specializing in ceramics, obsidian and stone working, metallurgy, jewelry-making, and other industries worked in the city's hundreds of workshops.

Photo by Antanith

Teotihuacán had sent troops into the Maya territories and had established its superiority, probably in the form of a king or governor. Yax Kuk Mo may have been appointed to his office as king or governor by the government in Teotihuacán

Photo by KJGarbutt

Along the Avenue of the Dead the main street running roughly through the city's center, stood numerous monumental pyramids, plazas, palaces, and temples.Teotihuacán is laid out on a grid with the avenue bisecting the city (Avenue of the Dead).

Teotihuacano writing are highly reminiscent of later Post Classic Mixtec and Aztec writing systems. non textual and highly complementary with pictorial representation. It mean like they would draw.

Photo by ErnestDuffoo

no written records or portraits of rulers have been discovered to reveal the details of the city's political and social structure

Photo by ErnestDuffoo

TEOTIHUACAN

AVENUE OF THE DEAD