Hello this is my entry to the #celestialchallenge created by @sirknight. I know is a little late but in my country is 11:30 in the evening, on Wednesday, February 7, so I'm here.
Today I want talk about the teotihuacan city in Mexico, This is a great demonstration of the progress of a civilazion in terms of architectural works, so I celebrate the great achievements of man, including buildings, engineering, transportation and architecture.
Around 2400 years ago, the valley of teotihuacan was occupied by various rural communities with a population of approximately 5000 inhabitants. Toward 200 B.C., part of the population from the southern basin of México, immigrates to the north of lake texcoco. This resulted in a reorganization of the settlements and a new population center was formed in the valley, in this way, the first planned urban settlement in Mesoamerica was born.
During the following phases of the development of the city, a sophisticated level of urbanization was reached as demonstrade by an urban plan with streets and blocks, dominated by two large perpendicular roadways running through them: the Avenue of the dead and the East-West Avenue. Likewise, the urban planning was evidenced by dranage and a sewage system in the residential units, buildings and public plazas, as well as by an official architectural style characterized as the talud-tablero (slope-panel).
Throughout the city different levels of construction can be appreciated, which demonstrate how the city grew on top of itself during nine centuries, in this way, one can observe the superimposed buildings which correspond to different stages in the development of the Teotihuacan culture, until its fall around 700-750 A.D.
These photos were made during a trip that I made to Mexico with my wife, when arriving in the city of Teotihuacan it was impressive to think how the man at that time and with so few tools managed to make such amazing constructions. for it we only find an answer, with the help of God