Abstract
This paper looks at the world of the Toltecs, focusing on how they were shaped and how they helped to shape a larger Meso-American cultural grouping that shared a number of salient cultural features. The author also makes particular mention of Toltecs impact on the Aztecs.

From the paper:

?The rise of the Toltec civilization did however mark a distinct turn in some sense because after the rise of the organized Toltec empire the peoples and rulers of this region of Mexico would be more deeply and more consistently marked by a militaristic orientation than those people (culturally related as they were) that preceded them, as Bernal argues?.

Tags:aztec, civilization, nahuatl, uto-aztecan, indigenous, new, world, spanish, western, mexico, tollan, tula, teotihuacan, mixcoatl, ce, acatl, topiltzin, quetzalcoatl, chichimec, culhuacan, chac-mools, monte, alban