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The Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico, features broad stone steps rising to a small temple at the top, with a central staircase and grassy plaza in front. Stone columns carved as Toltec warriors stand upright on a platform at Tula, Mexico, with additional cylindrical pillars and a clear sky in the background. Toltec statue Chac Mool sculpture at Chichén Itzå Toltec stone columns
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The Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico, features broad stone steps rising to a small temple at the top, with a central staircase and grassy plaza in front.
El Castillo at ChichĂ©n ItzĂĄ in Mexico El Castillo (“The Castle”), a Toltec-style pyramid, rising above the plaza at ChichĂ©n ItzĂĄ in YucatĂĄn state, Mexico.

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Toltec, Nahuatl-speaking tribe who held sway over what is now central Mexico from the 10th to the 12th century ce. The name has many meanings: an “urbanite,” a “cultured” person, and, literally, the “reed person,” derived from their urban centre, Tollan (“Place of the Reeds”), near the modern town of Tula, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Mexico City. The Toltecs sacked and burned the great city of Teotihuacán about 900 ce. Tradition tells...

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