But long before the Maya, around 1200 BC, the Olmec--Central and South America's first highly developed civilization--had arisen. At about the beginning of the Christian era it gave way to the Teotihuacan, who built the gigantic pyramids of the Sun and the Moon.
在它們之前，西元前一千兩百年左右奧爾梅克文明興起，在西元前後，提奧太瓦康繼之而起，建立巨大的日月金字塔。