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Teotihuacan: City Of The Gods - Sites Of The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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As with many of the pre-Colombian civilizations of CentraI and South America, there are more questions than answers surrounding the culture of Teotihuacán. From village communities, at around 200 B.C., there developed an urban civilization in the highIands of Mexico. Over the centuries it produced huge, preciseIy constructed pyramids for cultic purposes. In the 8th century A.D. Teotihuacán suffered a catastrophic coIlapse.
At its zenith this now legendary ruined city extended over 20 square kiIometers and was thus larger than lmperial Rome. Nobody knows what language its inhabitants spoke, or what people they belonged to. No writing has been found, nor has the name of any ruler. The film follows the traces of a forgotten society and contrasts them with the surviving lndian traditions of present-day Mexico. |
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