Indian people dominating central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. Their language belonged to the Nahuatlan subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages.
From Environmental History and Global Change: A Dictionary of Environmental History
Civilization on coast of Peru which flourished between AD100 and AD800.
Term denoting the culture of ancient Mexican natives inhabiting the tropical coastal plain of the contemporary states of Veracruz and Tabasco, between 1300 and 400 B.C.
Member of an ancient American Indian people who ruled much of Mexico and Central America in the 10th-12th centuries, with their capital and religious centre at Tula or Tollán, northeast of Mexico City.
Toltec city situated among the Maya city-states of the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico. Built on the site of an earlier Maya settlement, the city was at its height from around AD 980 to 1220 (The Classic and Post-Classic periods), after Toltec peoples from central Mexico settled here.
From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Ruined city of the Maya, W Honduras, in a small river valley of the same name. Copán is noted for its fine sculptured stele and majestic architecture.
From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia
Town in the north of the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, 150 km/93 mi southeast of Villahermosa; population (2005) 37,300. A few kilometers from the city are the ruins of a series of Maya temples dating from about the 4th century AD.
Ancient commercial and religious center in the central valley of Mexico. The largest (c.7 sq mi/18.1 sq km) and most impressive urban site of ancient America.
One of the largest and most important classic Maya sites, Tikal is situated in northern guatemala, and its archaeological sequence spans the years from ca. 800 b.c. to a.d. 900.