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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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sion of the preceding time—is attributable to the fact that our pointof observation is on the hither side of it,and that its nearness to the Spaniardsand other White races give to it a large-ness and brilliancy that it would not CENTRAL AMERICANS.—PRIMITI\ TE MENU . INS. 541 have possessed from a truer historicalperspective. We may not within the limits of our space remark further upon the three principle peoples of ancient Mexico. These were in order of succession the Toltecs, the Chichimecs, Minor peoples of the Nahuati as- and the Aztecs. I here werecendency. besides these the two peo- ples called the Ottomies and the Cholu- were thus at least contemporary withthe Toltecs, and possibly the older ofthe two peoples. The correctness of this hypothesis isindicated by the character of the Ottomilanguage. This was mon- ....... -, ,1 Hints derivable osyllabic, and was thus from language.strongly distinguishedfrom the polysyllabic vocabularies of theother Mexican races—a circumstance
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TOLTEC RUINS OF MITLA. lans, and below these (geographically)the races of Central America. Of theOttomies, we may say that they wereperhaps one of the oldest peoples ofWestern Mexico. They were certainlyin the country about lake Texcuco be-fore the arrival of the Chichimecs. Thev which points not only to the antiquityof the Ottomies, but to their manifestaffinity and probable derivation fromsome Polynesian or Asiatic source. The ancient Cholulans were a peoplebelonging to the table-land of Anahuac,where they developed a strong national- 542 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ity in the prehistoric period. Of them and their institutions not so much is known as has been ascer- Choiuians.0116 tained respecting the morefamous races. Already, atthe time of the Spanish invasion, theCholnlans had sunk into decay. It wasby the traces of their civilization ratherthan by themselves that the race wasrevealed to the invaders and to theknowledge of modern times. It would appear, however, that there races, ha

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