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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 vilIage communities, at around 200 B.C., there developed an urban civilization in the highlands of Mexico. Over the centuries it produced huge, precisely constructed pyramids for cuItic purposes. ln the 8th century A.D. Teotihuacán suffered a catastrophic collapse.
At its zenith this now Iegendary ruined city extended over 20 square kiIometers and was thus Iarger than lmperiaI Rome. Nobody knows what Ianguage its inhabitants spoke, or what people they belonged to. No writing has been found, nor has the name of any ruIer. The fiIm follows the traces of a forgotten society and contrasts them with the surviving lndian traditions of present-day Mexico. |
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