what culture lived in teotihuacan?
Mexico
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 The Maya civilization developed within the Mesoamerican cultural area , which covers a region that spreads from northern Mexico southwards into Central America . Mesoamerica was one of six cradles of civilization worldwide . The Mesoamerican area gave rise to a series of cultural developments that included complex societies , agriculture , cities , monumental architecture , writing , and calendrical systems . The set of traits shared by Mesoamerican cultures also included astronomical knowledge , blood and human sacrifice , and a cosmovision that viewed the world as divided into four divisions aligned with the cardinal directions , each with different attributes , and a three @-@ way division of the world into the celestial realm , the earth , and the underworld . 

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 The Aztec Empire existed in the central Mexican region between c . 1325 and 1521 , and was formed by the triple alliance of the tlatoque ( the Nahuatl term for " speaker " , also translated in English as " king " ) of three city @-@ states : Tlacopan , Texcoco , and the capital of the empire , Tenochtitlan . While the lineage of Tenochtitlan 's kings continued after the city 's fall to the Spanish on 13 August 1521 , they reigned as puppet rulers of the King of Spain until the death of the last dynastic tlatoani , Luis de Santa María Nanacacipactzin , on 27 December 1565 . 

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 The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples , and noted for its hieroglyphic script — the only known fully developed writing system of the pre @-@ Columbian Americas — as well as for its art , architecture , mathematics , calendar , and astronomical system . The Maya civilization developed in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico , all of Guatemala and Belize , and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador . This region consists of the northern lowlands encompassing the Yucatán Peninsula , and the highlands of the Sierra Madre , running from the Mexican state of Chiapas , across southern Guatemala and onwards into El Salvador , and the southern lowlands of the Pacific littoral plain . 

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 The Maya civilization occupied a wide territory that included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America ; this area included the entire Yucatán Peninsula , and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize , as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador . In Mexico , the Maya occupied territory now incorporated into the states of Chiapas , Tabasco , Campeche , Quintana Roo and Yucatán . 

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 Unlike the typical Mesoamerican pyramids and rectangular central plazas , the Teuchitlán tradition is marked by central circular plazas and unique conical pyramids . This circular architectural style is seemingly mirrored in the many circular shaft tomb tableau scenes . Known primarily from this architecture , the Teuchitlán tradition rises at roughly the same time as the shaft tomb tradition , 300 BCE , but lasts until 900 CE , many centuries after the end of the shaft tomb tradition . The Teuchitlán tradition appears to be an outgrowth and elaboration of the shaft tomb tradition . 
