{"slug": "teotihuacan", "label": "Teotihuacan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172613", "qid": "Q172613", "description": "ancient Mesoamerican city", "entries": 12, "years": 12, "span": [-499, 901], "span_label": ["500 BCE", "901 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mexico", "label": "Mexico", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "maya-civilization", "label": "Maya civilization", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tikal", "label": "Tikal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "americas", "label": "Americas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesoamerica", "label": "Mesoamerica", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -499, "year_label": "500 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Olmec established Monte Albán, the sacred city, and continued building pyramids. Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BCE, by the Terminal Formative (ca.100 BCE–CE 200) Monte Albán soon became the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacts with other Mesoamerican regional states, such as Teotihuacan to the north (Paddock 1983; Marcus 1983).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363151372#Mesoamerica", "title": "500 BC", "revid": 1363151372, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 100, "year_label": "100 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Teotihuacan, a major city at the centre of modern-day Mexico, reaches a population of around 60,000–80,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188492#Americas", "title": "AD 100", "revid": 1371188492, "section": "Events › By place › Americas"}}, {"year": 150, "year_label": "150 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Great Pyramid of the Sun is constructed in Teotihuacan. It is the tallest pre-Columbian building in the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373077197#Americas", "title": "AD 150", "revid": 1373077197, "section": "Events › By place › Americas"}}, {"year": 250, "year_label": "250 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Teotihuacán is rebuilt as a four-quartered cosmogram by Zapotec architects brought from Monte Albán in Oaxaca.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371187135#Mesoamerica", "title": "250", "revid": 1371187135, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 303, "year_label": "303 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "In Mexico, the civilization of Teotihuacan flourishes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330172013#America", "title": "303", "revid": 1330172013, "section": "Events › By place › America"}}, {"year": 374, "year_label": "374 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – Spearthrower Owl ascends to the throne and becomes ruler of Teotihuacan (Mexico).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288884897#Mesoamerica", "title": "374", "revid": 1288884897, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 378, "year_label": "378 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Siyaj K'ak' begins to replace Mayan kings with relatives of Spearthrower Owl, emperor of Teotihuacan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309998773#Mesoamerica", "title": "378", "revid": 1309998773, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 439, "year_label": "439 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Spearthrower Owl, ruler of Teotihuacan (Mexico)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307025237#Deaths", "title": "439", "revid": 1307025237, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 501, "year_label": "501 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Maya are peaking in economic prosperity. The civilization at Teotihuacan begins to decline and its people are migrating to the greatest Mayan city, Tikal, bringing with them ideas about weaponry and new ritual practices.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790337#Central_America", "title": "501", "revid": 1340790337, "section": "Events › By place › Central America"}}, {"year": 600, "year_label": "600 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "600-750 - Maguey Bloodletting Ritual, fragment of a fresco from Teotihuacan, Mexico, is made. Teotihuacan culture. It is now kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751689#Arts_and_sciences", "title": "600", "revid": 1364751689, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts and sciences"}}, {"year": 750, "year_label": "750 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "The city of Teotihuacan (modern Mexico) is destroyed and left in ruins, its palaces burned to the ground.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358128937#America", "title": "750", "revid": 1358128937, "section": "Events › America"}}, {"year": 901, "year_label": "901 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Toltecs establish themselves at Tula. The city becomes the capital and rises to prominence after the fall of Teotihuacan (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345013381#Mesoamerica", "title": "901", "revid": 1345013381, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}]}