152 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 
994 ‘Tlilcoahuatzin dies and the famous Huemac takes the power. The 
wicked magic of his queen. 
1018 The great starvation takes place. 
1058 Many strange things happen in Tula. The demons arrive. 
1059 Two armies attack the population. Despotism begins. First 
sacrifice of nobles. 
1063. War wages. The Otomies attack—the skins of slain warriors are 
first worn. 
1064 Tula under Huemac is destroyed because of the wicked magic. 
The people disperse. 
1070 The power of Tula broken completely, Huemac commits suicide in 
Chapultepec. 
Some authorities shift the entire series of dates in this 
summary backward one 52 year period, making the 
first date 674 A. D. and the last one 1018 A. D. This 
seems unjustifiable in view of the continuous counting 
of every year in this chronicle down to the coming of the 
Spaniards in 1519. 
Of course this summary does not actually cover the 
range of Toltecan history. Such cities as Teotihuacan 
and Xochicaleco may well have seen their prime before 
Tula became important while certain other popula- 
tions such as Colhuacan, Atzcapotzalco and Cholula 
doubtless carried the civilization of the Toltecs down 
into times much later than the suicide of Huemac. 
Checking up Mexican dates with the more accurate 
chronology of the Mayas it may be pointed out that 
the period of Mexican influence in Northern Yucatan 
seems to have begun about 1200 A. D. The Mexican 
mercenaries who enlisted in the aid of Mayapan 
defeated the ruling house at Chichen Itza in the tenth 
year of Katun 8 Ahau, or about 1196 A. D. This date 
is 126 years after the recorded downfall of Tula, vet cer- 
tain structural and decorative details of the buildings 
erected at Chichen Itza by these foreign overlords find 
their closest analogues at Tula. Other details point to 
the somewhat later epoch of Tezcoco. Curiously 
enough, no record of this far-reaching conquest seems 
to have been preserved on the highlands of Mexico. 
