F2F Class Notes (Ben) [S]

Write a story with today’s words.

The city of Teotihuacán, which lay about 50 kilometers northeast of modern-day Mexico City, began its growth by 200 –100 B.C.

At its height, between about A.D. 150 and 700, it probably had a population of more than 125,000 people and covered at least 20 square kilometers.

It had over 2,000 apartment complexes, a great market, a large number of industrial workshops, an administrative center, a number of massive religious edifices, and a regular grid pattern of streets and buildings.

Clearly, much planning and central control were involved in the expansion and ordering of this great metropolis.

Moreover, the city had economic and perhaps religious contacts with most parts of Mesoamerica (modern Central America and Mexico).

Vocabulary

BC = before Christ 公元前
AD = Annus Domini 公元后

at its height = at the most successful moment of its history
At its height, the company Lehman Brothers was one of the most successful banks in the world.

an apartment complex = a group of apartments, buildings
I live in a complex on Hengshan Road.

a workshop = a place for manual work, 车间
I had my clothes fixed in a small workshop on the street.

an administrative center = 行政中心

an edifice = a big building

a grid = little squares together
  

a pattern = 模式
Many American cities have a grid pattern.

expansion = to expand = to spread wider and wider
Shanghai was a small city but it has expanded and now it is a big metropolis.

a metropolis = a big city
Some of the world’s biggest metropolises are New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, etc.

religious = related to religion
The biggest edifices in history were often religious, like churches or temples.

Pronunciation

grid

greed

control