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The Acropolis at Copan, Honduras. Constructed at a bend of the Copan River,the city's enormous rectangular plazas were surrounded by pyramids with stepson which the populace sat in review of ceremonies and to witness athletic events.Although the countryside outside Copan was thick with other towns and villages,the city contained no military fortifications and its elaborate art and architecturecarried no hint of martial imagery.Chichen ltza, Yucatan: View from the North. A paved boulevard led from thesacred well of the city in the north (lower left of the drawing) to the four-sided,eight-story-high Temple of Kukulcan in the center. To the east, the Group of theThousand Columns, made up of plazas and temples and colonnades, once was abusy marketplace. To the west lay a huge ballcourt and athletic compound.