Toltec power at Tula peaks

1100

In central Mexico, the Toltec capital of Tula reached its apex of pyramid temples guarded by stone warrior-columns. Traders in turquoise and cacao connected its markets to the Pueblo Southwest and coastal Yucatan. Its collapse within a generation would become a foundational myth of later Aztec historiography, with Nahua storytellers casting Tula's fall as the exile of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl.