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About Tula

Tula is a Mesoamerican archeological site, which turned into an critical local center which reached its top because the capital of the Toltec Empire between the autumn of Teotihuacan and the upward push of Tenochtitlan. It has not been properly studied in assessment to these other two sites, and disputes remain as to its political device, region of have an impact on and its family members with modern Mesoamerican towns, specially with Chichen Itza. The web page is located in the town of Tula de Allende inside the Tula Valley, in what's now the southwest of the Mexican state of Hidalgo, northwest of Mexico City.

The archeological web site consists of a museum, stays of an earlier settlement referred to as Tula Chico in addition to the principle ceremonial site known as Tula Grande. The principal attraction is the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, that's crowned by way of four four-metre-high basalt columns carved inside the shape of Toltec warriors. Tula fell round 1150, but it had giant affect inside the following Aztec Empire, with its records written approximately closely in delusion. The feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl is connected to this metropolis, whose worship changed into tremendous from important Mexico to Central America on the time the Spanish arrived.

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