![]() ![]() This period was also a time when cities began to develop. The Classic period was a time of significant urbanization and construction. Great cities such as Teotihuacan rose to importance and massive monuments dedicated to gods and goddesses were erected during this time. Just as there was a considerable rise in growth and development during the Classic period, it also was a period of the great collapse in which most cities were abandoned for no known reason. Inhabitants in the southern regions of the Yucatan began to move northward. View of the Avenue of the Dead and the Pyramid of the Sun, from Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan. The Post-Classic period was a time of resettling other northernmost regions and a fortification of power in which governments became more sophisticated and the centralization of power under one ruler became much more apparent. During the Contact period, Mayans came in contact with the Spanish under Hernan Cortez. ![]()
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