jan 2, 200 - beginning of classic period
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Royal capital cities sprang up during the Classic period. The people of the Zapotec city of Monte Alban (located in modern Oaxaca, Mexico) built theirs on a mountaintop. On the edge of the Central Valley of Mexico,Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities of the ancient world boasted a population of 150,000
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