Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, the Mayan city today's Mexico has mysterious origins. It was massive, one of ___ first great cities of the Western hemisphere.

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It was built by hand ___ than a thousand years before the sweeping arrival of the Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs in central Mexico.

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But it was the Aztec descending on the ___ site, no doubt falling awestruck by what they saw, who gave it's current name: Teotihuacan.

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The main excavations performed by Professors Saburo Sugiyama of Aichi Prefectural University in Japan and Ruben Cabrera, a Mexican archeologist,___ been at the Pyramid of the Moon.

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Inside the temple, researchers found buried animals and bodies, with heads that had been lobbed off, all thought to be ___ to God's or sanctification for successive layers of the pyramid.

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It's unclear why Teotihuacan collapsed; one theory is that___ classes carried out an internal revolt.

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While more studies are needed to understand Teotihuacan, the mystery lies not as much in ___ built the city or in why it fell.

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It is more ____ to ask why Teotihuacan lasted so long.

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A better question is what political and religious practices provided____ stability to Teotihuacan.

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For now, threats to the ruins of Teotihuan are posed ___ towns, shops, highways and a military base.

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