Toltec Architecture

Although it is true that the Toltecs had a great influence among the Maya, it is not proven that there was a military presence in the Yucatan peninsula. Nor vice versa, although some authors thought that Tula had been founded by Maya from Yucatan. It is possible to speak of a great commercial and political-religious influence of the Toltecs in Chichén Itzá, influence that is reflected basically in the architecture of many structures such as the Castle, the Temple of the Warriors (that shows a fusion of the Puuc style (surely influenced by Uxmal) with Toltec design, as well as in the presence of the so called chac-mool typical of Tula. The incursion of Quetzalcoatl as a deity is another important Toltec element reflected in Kukulkan among the Maya: They had great talent for building, and their influence extended to much of Mesoamerica in the Postclassic period. Among the Nahua peoples at the time of the conquest, the word Toltec meant someone wise who mastered arts and crafts. And the word “toltequidad” was equivalent to what we would call high culture.

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