Question: Mexican cuisine began about 9000 years ago, 7000 BCE, when agricultural communities such as the Maya formed, domesticating maize, creating the standard process of corn nixtamalization, and establishing their foodways, successive waves of other Mesoamerican groups, including which ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 40 km northeast of modern-day Mexico City?
Sentence (from "List of Mayan languages"): The Mayan languages are a family of languages spoken by the Maya people.
Relevant evidence: No