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Pre-Aztec Mexican
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toltec
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The Toltec culture is an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula , Hidalgo , Mexico in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology (ca 900-1168 CE). The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual ...
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Toltec \Tol"tec\, n. (Ethnol.) One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico. -- Tol"te*can , a.
Usage examples of toltec.
This imaginary antithesis he traces out between the Algonkin and Apalachian tribes, and between the Toltecs of Guatemala and the Aztecs of Mexico.
To solve these knotty points I shall choose for analysis the culture myths of the Algonkins, the Iroquois, the Toltecs of Mexico, and the Aymaras or Peruvians, guided in my choice by the fact that these four families are the best known, and, in many points of view, the most important on the continent.
They must be some of the cave dwellings of the ancient Pueblos, or perhaps as far back as the Toltecs.
If no explanations are given to them before they enter into the left side, they will be great sorcerers but poor seers, as the ancient Toltecs were.
It is found in the histories of the Toltecs that this age and 'first world', as they call it, lasted 1716 years.
Interestingly, this practically mirrors the situation on the other side of the world in the wars between the Aztecs and the Toltecs, where Mars rooted for the former, and Venus, the latter.