Message #12150

[Tempest]

Observatory in Chichén Itzá

    The post-Classical Toltecs were a conservative culture. For the most part they preserved Teotihuacán traditions; the transformations that they introduced expanded on Mexican religions and reoriented much of the culture around a warrior ethic and warrior aristocracy. There was no real political center, but rather a diffuse set of tribes, some urbanized and some not, with distinct cultures. The last great period of cultural unification would come under the Aztecs who, at the very twilight of Mesoamerican culture in the fifteenth century, built the most complex urban culture in Native American history.