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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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s Spanish, signify-ing village. It was applied by the Span-iards to the aborigines of New Mexicobecause the latter dwelt in villages. 525 526 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. They were a sedentary people, and onlyincidentally hunters and fishermen. Theprincipal feature of their life, namely,the village, from which they were named,was a fact sufficiently con- The Pueblos . . 1 and their build- spicuous. It is here that wemgs note the disappearance of the wigwam and lodge of North Amer-ica and the substitution of the house.The Pueblos are the first proper builderswhom we find in our progress to the times the house was several stories inheight. The huts of the poorer kindwere a single story high, but had thesame general character as the more pre-tentious buildings. The larger houseswere intended to contain several fami-lies. In some instances quite a numberof houses were built as one around asquare, thus furnishing accommodationsfor quite a community of people. The villages were frequently set on
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MENDICANT INDIANS OF MEXICAN VILLAGE. South. They understood and practicedconstruction much in the manner ofsome of the ancient nations, such as theChaldees. The Pueblo house was adobe-brick or stone. In the construction ofit mortar was used, but it does not ap-pear that the burning of bricks was un-derstood. In view of the climate, how-ever, the baking of clay in the sun wassufficient, and the bricks thus producedhave been found to be almost as durableas those of the Babylonian plain. The Pueblo houses were of a widerange as to size and character. Theground plan was rectangular. Some- the plains, but the Pueblos preferredsome high and defensible A i-n- Rock dwellings situation. A elm or moun- and villages,tain terrace, defended bythe nature of the place, was usuallychosen, and there the village or townwas built. The true Pueblo house seemsto have had respect, first of all, to de-fensibility; for the first story was with-out doors or windows. This feature hasnow been relinquished for

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