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El Castillo, a Toltec-style pyramid, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán state, Mexico Columns depicting Toltec warriors, Tula, Mexico. Toltec statue Chac Mool, Mayan-Toltec sculpture, c. 1000, from Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mex.; in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Chac Mool. Toltec stone columns
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El Castillo, a Toltec-style pyramid, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán state, Mexico
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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
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Toltec, Nahuatl-speaking tribe who held sway over what is now central Mexico from the 10th to the 12th century ce. The name has many meanings: an “urbanite,” a “cultured” person, and, literally, the “reed person,” derived from their urban centre, Tollan (“Place of the Reeds”), near the modern town of Tula, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Mexico City. The Toltecs sacked and burned the great city of Teotihuacán about 900 ce. Tradition tells that this occurred under the leadership of Mixcóatl (“Cloud Serpent”). Under his son, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl, they formed a number of small states of ...(100 of 252 words)

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