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- noun Plural form of
Toltec .
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Scholars at Washington State University in their extensive Civilizations in America site have determined that the Toltecs were a war-like people who practiced human sacrifice and were led by a "warrior aristocracy."
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Scholars at Washington State University in their extensive Civilizations in America site have determined that the Toltecs were a war-like people who practiced human sacrifice and were led by a "warrior aristocracy."
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What we are to understand by the Toltecs is the sedentary tribes of Indians, either of the Nahua or Maya stock.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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One of these is the notion that the Toltecs were the originators of
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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The Toltecs were a tribe who helped fight and conquer the city of Teotihuacan in the 8th century.
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The Toltecs were a tribe who helped fight and conquer the city of Teotihuacan in the 8th century.
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All the naguals I am aware of were Toltecs, that is, accomplished artists.
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He was a slave to the Toltecs and the Aztecs, to the Spaniards, and to the Mexicans descended from the Aztecs and the Spaniards.
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Where would we be without the ancient Mexicans (the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs) and all those folk who had the cacao bean.
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He then took over as new leader of the Toltecs by pushing the unpopular Ihuitmal into a sacrificial fire.
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