Post "National Malls" of the ancient world.

>you will never walk around the forum romanum during the time of Trajan
>you will never walk around the Acropolis during the time of Sophocles

>>2696444

which one's the food court where all the weeaboos and stoners gather around

File: 768_02_2.jpg (95KB, 750x505px) Image search: [Google]

95KB, 750x505px

Not technically ancient but

>After we had sufficiently gazed upon this magnificent picture, we again turned our eyes toward the great market, and beheld the vast numbers of buyers and sellers who thronged there. The bustle and noise occasioned by this multitude of human beings was so great that it could be heard at a distance of more than four miles. Some of our men, who had been at Constantinople and Rome, and travelled through the whole of Italy, said that they never had seen a market-place of such large dimensions, or which was so well regulated, or so crowded with people as this one at Mexico.

from Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of the New Spain

File: aztec2figure01.jpg (256KB, 912x1050px) Image search: [Google]

256KB, 912x1050px

>>2697823
>tfw Spaniards ruined everything with their autistic jihading
>tfw they did nothing of long term value with their new world wealth
>tfw meso-american civilization died in vain

File: aztec feels 2.jpg (405KB, 744x782px) Image search: [Google]

405KB, 744x782px

>>2698144
>tfw we could have an entire third tree of history alongside western and eastern if not for them

File: 1342108328.jpg (146KB, 800x600px) Image search: [Google]

146KB, 800x600px

In ancient Cambodia (Angkor Thom) it was the terrace of the elphants.

They had great gatherings and victory parades here