ocr: open ground than is found in any other part of1 Teotihuacan. The total area of the city was eight square miles. Not counting ritual structures, more than 4,000 buildings, most of them apart- ment houses, were built to shelter the population. At the height of Teotihuacan's power, in the middle of the first millennium A.D., the population certainly exceeded 50,000 and was probably closer to 100,000. This is not a particularly high figure com- pared with Old World religious-political centers; today the population of Mecca is some 130,000 and that of Benares more than 250,000 (to which is added an ...
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