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The Toltecs
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Farming and Metallurgy
Art and Architecture
-The Toltecs grew maize, beans, and peppers
-They were said to have grown red, yellow, green, and blue cotton
-The Toltecs were the first people to use metallurgy
-They were the first people in the region to use gold, silver, and copper
Coatl
The Nahuatl word for "serpent"
-Toltec palaces were rumored to be made of gold, jade, turquoise, and quetzal feathers.
-Giant statues of warriors, called Atlantes, were commonly found on the tops of palaces. Each one stood 12 feet tall.
-Toltec potters were said to have "taught the clay to lie".
-The Toltecs used
obsidian to carve
blades and
arrowheads.
Quetzalcoatl
The major god of Toltec religion
Religion
The Toltecs were polythiestic with one major God, named Quetzalcoatl. The ruler of the Toltecs was thought to have a divine connection with the Gods.
Quetzal or "The God of Wind"
Myths
The Toltecs told stories of an old world that lasted for 1, 716 years and was destroyed by a great flood. The legend tells of a few people who survived by hiding in a "toptlipetlocali", which means a closed chest. After the flood, these people built a high "zacuali", or tower, as a safe-haven. However, the languages of the people became confused, and the people drifted apart.
The Toltecs say they started as a family of 7 who spoke the same language. They wandered 104 years till they came to Hue Hue Tlapalan, or Southern Mexico.
Conclusion
Visit the land of the Toltecs!
Location
Writing
They were master stoneworkers and potters.
They had temples of gold, jade, and turquoise
The Toltecs used hieroglyphics to write. They wrote on stone columns in their palaces. Their
writing was very
similar to that of the
Maya and Aztec.
Their God was half bird- half snake
The Toltecs were located
in the middle of modern
day Mexico in the Valley
of Mexico. Their center
was located at Lake
Texcoco, where the great
city of Tenochtitlan was
originally built.
Two of the most prominent civilizations looked up to them and adopted their culture
The Toltecs
They were the first people in Mesoamerica to use gold and silver
The word "Toltec" means "master builders" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The Toltecs were highly regarded by both the Maya and Aztec. Their civilization was considered the golden area when writing, medicine, and metallurgy were invented in Mesoamerica.
They told creative myths
They mastered agriculture