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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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re superior inthe civilized life to the barbarianswho about this period obtained pos-session of Europe. Relies of theancient work of the Toltecs arestill preserved in the remains ofthe pyramid of Cholula, which maywell be ranked with the achieve-ments of the classical ages. TheToltecs had their seers and proph-ets, their historians and astrologers.It was at this early age that thereligious institutions inherited bythe Aztecs from their predecessorswere founded. It would appearthat in the primitive age of theToltec ascendency the government wasdouble, having a secular and a religioushead—a fact in which we may catch aglimpse of probability that the Toltecs CENTRAL AMERICANS.—PRIMITIVE MENU ANS. 539 were immigrants from Japan or someother northeastern Asiatic country. The incoming of the Nahuatl tribes,who at length gave an ethnic name to Aztecs whom we have already consid-ered. The Nahuatl appear to havecome in the character of conquerors, butto have absorbed the preceding Toltecs,
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE TOLTECS.—Temple and Akch at Tikal.—Drawn by A. de Bar, from a photograph. the peoples of Mexico, is placed in thetwelfth century. There Historical glimpses of the were of the tribes so-called Nahuatl. ,. . . f * . 1 seven divisions, or whichthe last and most powerful were those and converted the whole into that racewhom the Spaniards found in Mexico. As far as we have been able to knowthe facts, the Toltecs were of the samecreneral character as the Aztecs who 540 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. succeeded them. They established amonarchy, developed a clergy and no-bility, built cities, constructed publicimprovements, made war, Relations of the , Toitec and Az- and suffered from famine and pestilence. It appears that at one time, before the coming of

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