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TIL Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived in Teotihuacan around 600 A.D., making it one of the world’s largest cities, filled with single- and multifloor apartment compounds. The ethnic identity of Teotihuacan’s inhabitants is not known and no writing system has been discovered there

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