Warrior-state of central Mexico whose colonnaded halls and stone Atlantean warriors at Tula made it the legendary Tollan that later Aztecs claimed as their golden ancestor.
Drought, soil exhaustion and Chichimec incursions broke the city; Tula was largely abandoned by c.1150, its memory mythologized by the Aztec who saw the Toltecs as the fount of all civilization.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Toltec (Tula) — the shape you scrub through changes in 650 · 900 · 1050.
Nicholson's definitive scholarly study of the Toltec ruler-legend of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl and the history of Tula.
Standard survey covering the Toltecs and the Tollan myth (broad regional backbone).