| The god Quetzalcoatl had supposedly brought it to an end among the Toltecs half a millennium before. |
| The Mayans, Toltecs, and Incas were popularly believed to constitute the last flourishing of Atlantean races. |
| The Aztecs, for example, admired and collected the art of their predecessors, the Toltecs and Olmecs. |
| Having little to offer other than their reputation as warriors, the Mexica hired themselves out as mercenaries to rival Toltec factions. |
| Nahuatl, the most important of the Uto-Aztecan languages, was the language of the Aztec and Toltec civilizations of Mexico. |
| The Aztecs inherited from the Toltec and the Maya the practice of human sacrifice. |
