Tributary network · approximate900 CE – 1150 · 250 years
Toltec Empire
Overview
The Toltec Empire, Toltec Kingdom or Altepetl Tollan was a political entity in pre-Hispanic Mexico. It existed through the classic and post-classic periods of Mesoamerican chronology, but gained most of its power in the post-classic. During this time its sphere of influence reached as far away as the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Borders & accuracy
A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Empire
- SNAPSHOT1000
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Toltec polity centered on Tula (Hidalgo), c. 900-1150: central Mexican plateau from southern Hidalgo through northern Puebla, southern San Luis Potosí, Mezquital valley, and Toluca basin. Northern frontier against Chichimecas at the Río San Juan; eastern frontier at the Sierra Madre Oriental escarpment.
Wars of this empire4
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Toltec-Maya Conflicts900 CE–1100Significant
- Toltec Empire Expansion950 CE–1150Significant
- Toltec Conquest of Yucatán987 CE–1010Significant
- Toltec-Maya Conflict987 CE–1200Regional · 50K dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 900 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Toltec Empire (900 CE – 1150). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-toltec-empire · Sources & methodology