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The Toltec are one of the very most famous Mesoamerican teams in South America, but they are also the most controversial and strange. The Toltec have been recognized as the group that proven a strong state focused in Tula (in present-day Mexico), and the Aztec claimed the Toltec as their cultural predecessors, much so that the word Toltec comes from the Aztec's phrase Tōltēcatl, translated as artisan. The Aztec also placed tabs on the Toltec's background, including keeping a set of important rulers and occurrences, that suggest the peak of the Toltec happened from about Advertisement 900-1100. As soon as Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the entire world, and they continue steadily to hold a distinctive place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years following the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs tend to be remembered today because of their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being brutal conquerors of the Valley of Mexico who often employed in individual sacrifice rituals. Ironically, and unlike the Mayans, the Aztecs aren't widely looked at or kept in mind with nuance, partly because their own head burned extant Aztec writings and rewrote a mythologized background explaining his empire's dominance less than a century before the Spanish arrived. Thus, even while historians experienced to rely on Aztec accounts to trace the annals and culture of the Toltec, they experienced to cope with the fact that the data is fragmentary and imperfect. Given the fact that the Aztec leaders employed in revisionist background, it becomes even more complicated to be sure that the Aztec accounts of the Toltec are exact, with some scholars going as far as to call the Toltec culture only myth.
