The regional capitals and the Sanctuary-Markets of the Toltec’s

Abstract

After the fall of Teotihuacán, the Toltec groups from northern Mexico had a rapid expansion throughout Mesoamerica, controlling regions as important as northern and central Veracruz, the Central Highlands, northern Yucatan, western Mexico, among others, and this can only be explained by their effective economic system, with which they maintained tight control over the main sources of raw materials, production centers, trade routes and the most important places of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic religion. In addition, the model of the "Regional Capitals" allowed them to spread Toltequization throughout the regions in which they were, the maximum end of the Toltecs, however after the fall of Tula the model suffered a collapse and the centers most dependent on the capitals experienced an abrupt end, which shows the great dependence of the capitals on the city of Tollan Xicocotitlan and reinforces its role as the center of the world in the Early Postclassic.