Historicist

(noun)

A scholar that utilizes Aztec accounts of Toltec culture to piece together the history of the Toltec people.

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Examples of Historicist in the following topics:

  • The Toltecs

    • The historicists believe that there is truth within the stories told by the Aztecs.
    • Désiré Charnay, the first archaeologist to work at Tula, Hidalgo, defended the historicist views based on his impression of the Toltec capital.
    • Some 20th-century historicist scholars, such as David Carrasco, Miguel León Portilla, Nigel Davies and H.
    • Historicists supportive of the ethnic group theory also argue that much of central Mexico was possibly dominated by a "Toltec empire" between the 10th and 12th centuries CE.