Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl the bringer of life, beloved by his people, and worshiped as a deity by later cultures was credited by the Toltec for bringing them many things, most of them already having existed we know he did not; what if during his reign he, or at least a priest loyal to him, had brought his people an innovation that would not arrive be known to the Mesoamerican people until they came to be subjugated by men from another world? What if the Toltec had independently, and perhaps by complete accident invented gunpowder [1]? What if the God-Emperor had used this tool to build an empire that did not use Human sacrifice as a means to appease gods? What if the because of this innovation the Toltec never fell?
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[1] All the ingredients needed to create gunpowder can be found through out much of the area that the Toltec dwelled in or around.
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[1] All the ingredients needed to create gunpowder can be found through out much of the area that the Toltec dwelled in or around.