page_title: Toltec Empire
section_title: Rest of Yucatan
hierarchical_section_title: Toltec Empire / International relations / Maya region / Rest of Yucatan
caption_attribution_description: Del conjunto, desde una de las pirámides. No es selva, es monte bajo (?)Vista general
context_page_description: According to Mesoamerican historiography, the Toltec Empire, Toltec Kingdom or Altepetl Tollan was a political entity in modern 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.
  The capital city of this empire was Tollan-Xicocotitlan, while other important cities included Tulancingo, and Huapalcalco, although some more distant cities like Chupícuaro, Chichen Itza, and Coba seem to have been under Toltec control or influence at some point.
context_section_description: Chichen Itza would eventually become the largest city in Yucatan with a population of at least 50,000 people.
  Almost as many people as lived in Coba during the classic period.
  In the mid 8th century, the Classic Maya civilization began to collapse. Around 925, about the same the time in which the Toltecs began to migrate to the Maya area, most of the major Maya cities in the Yucatán Peninsula had already been abandoned due to food shortages and peasant revolts Some Maya cities in the Yucatan peninsula at the time were:
  Uxmal
  Jaina (a small city on an island in marshland on the coast of the gulf of Mexico)
  Xtampak
  Izamal
  Dzibilchaltun
  Edzna
  Calakmul
  Sayil
  Kabah
  Muyil
  Zama
  Mayapan
  Ek' Balam (capitol of the Kingdom of Talol)
caption: Uxmal
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