considering that it was one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world in its day (150,000 to 200,000 inhabitants, which means that population-wise it was larger than Rome, Paris, London, or Madrid). Teotihuacan, the place where the gods were born, is an enigmatic city that had some of the most expansive influence of any city state ever founded in Mesoamerica. Its influence fanned up into the American Southwest and down into Honduras and Nicaragua. It had several barrios or naborhoods that were ethnic enclaves of peoples from throughout Mesoamerica including Zapotecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan and Guatemala, and peoples from the Gulf Coast as well as Western Mexico. Teotihuacanos or Teotihuanecas were thought to have been the ancestors of the Toltecs and thus the fountain of all culture and learning. It is sad to think of it as a small tributary to the Mexica, but, indeed it most likely was. *sigh*