Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan grows into the largest city in the Americas
Around AD 200 the Pyramid of the Sun, one of the largest structures of the pre-Columbian Americas, was completed. Teotihuacan, with an estimated 100,000 people, became the largest city in the Americas and shaped all of Mesoamerica.
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A little over a century after Vesuvius buried Pompeii, across the ocean in Teotihuacan the Pyramid of the Sun rose — one of the largest pyramids in the world.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 224 Rise of the Sasanian Empire — 24 years later
Asia
- 220 Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Galen (aged 71)
- Cao Cao (aged 45)
- Zhuge Liang (aged 19)