Holiday in Mexico

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   Don’t bother. The only civilizations westerners are concerned about are not from the Americas.

   Comment by Jay K — December 2, 2007 @ 1:53 am

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   Teotihuacan,El Tajin ,Monte Alban, Mitla,Bonampak
   Chinkultic, Chichen Itza,Coba,Palenque ,Tenam Puente ,Tulum,Uxmal,Yaxchilan,Cholula,Tenochtitlan,Xochicalco,Kukulkan,Quetzalcoatl,Calakmul (yucatan peninsula),Palenque (in Chiapas),Tzintzuntzan (in Michoacan), Tula(Hidalgo), Pyramids of the Sun and Moon in Teotihuacan(veracruz)

   Scientists believe Teotihuacán around A.D. 650. The Aztecs stumbled upon the metropolis centuries later, they dubbed it the “City of the Gods,” because they believed it was where the Gods met to create the present universe and sun.

   I hope it helps.

   Comment by Brunella — December 3, 2007 @ 10:53 am

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   mmmh Teotihuacan is in the State of Mexico (close to Mexico City), not in Veracruz, and it has mesoamerica´s most iconic structure, the Pyramid of The Sun ( commonly mistaken as “aztec”… it was built almost 700 years before the mexicas arrived to central mexico ) … Cholula, in the state of Puebla has (maybe) the biggest prehispanic structure ever constructed, nowadays its considered a hill -_- , there s something similar in Chiapas … El Tajin is in Veracruz , pyramids also… Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Ek-Balam among other ancient maya cities hail from Yucatan, Palenque and Bonampak in Chiapas have pyramidal structures well … there is a freaking lot around …

   Comment by Arcturus I — December 5, 2007 @ 9:33 am

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   As a mexican that has visited several pyramids in the past, I’d suggest you to separate the pyramids by which culture built them and by geographic region because there’s so many of them.

   Mexico City alone still conserves about 8 or 9 pyramids counting in Teotihuacan (remmeber that current Mexico City was a city named Tenochtitlán which had a lot of pyramids but the Aztecs themselves destroyed their own city, so very few pyramids still remain to this day, most of them buried underground somewhere.

   Teotihuacan and the Templo Mayor aren’t the only 2 pyramids in Mexico City. There’s one in the mount Tizayuca in Tlalnepantla State of Mexico (I haven’t visited it yet though), another one which has this strange round shape somewhere in the delegación Tlalpan. I just can’t remember the pyramid’s name right now. There’s also a pyramids in the plaza de las culturas in Tlatelolco which I haven’t visited yet either. Ugh.. I really need to tour my own city a bit more.

   Teotihuacan isn’t an Aztec pyramid BTW, historians still aren’t really sure who built them but that they abandoned the city before the Aztecs came. Some of the remaining pyramids in Mexico City aren’t Aztec either since there was a huge gamma of small indian tribes surrounding the original city, but for simplification you could say they were all Aztec, your teacher probably won’t notice.

   There’s a nice pyramid in the city of Tula, Hidalgo, I believe it’s Toltec culture.

   Veracruz has several pyramids.

   The archeological site of Montealbán Oaxaca is very famous. I believe it’s Zapotec.

   There is an Olmec archeological site in Tabasco named “La Venta”, I think there’s a small pyramid in it.

   Tere’s also an interesting pyramid in northen Puebla but I haven’t seen it myself yet and I don’t know who built it.

   Notice that not all Mayan pyramids are located in modern-day Mexico. Some of their pyramids are in Guatemala and Belize.

   It’s a little known secret that ordinary tourists don’t know, but there’s several small pyramids near the city of Toluca in the state of Mexico.

   Comment by Gata de Barrio — December 8, 2007 @ 11:04 am

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   viva mexico

   Comment by oswaldo — December 10, 2007 @ 10:46 am

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