The word Toltec refers to possibly real and possibly fictional populations and polities that inhabited pre-Columbian central Mexico. The word has been used in different ways in Mesoamerican studies by different scholars to refer to actual populations and polities of pre-Columbian central Mexico or to the mythical ancestors mentioned in the mythical/historical narratives of the Aztecs. There's a key scholarly debate over whether the Toltecs were ever a genuine ethnicity or genuine polity, or if… (More on Toltec)