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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
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had come as wanderers into Mexicowhere the Toltecs were before them. It is not impossible that the traditionof Aztlan refers to a primitive emigra-tion of the ancestors of the Aztecs outof Asia. The belief in the foreignorigin of the race was universal; butthe historical facts to which the mythreferred are unknown. As we havesaid, the Aztec immigrants found theToltecs in possession of the table-land ofMexico. Them they either supplantedor assimilated. At least the newer racerose in place of the elder. Strangelyenough, it would appear that the Tolteccivilization was equally varied and im-posing with that of their successors. The historical success and progress ofthe Aztec race were remarkable. They ob-tained a complete predom- Historical suc- inance over the Toltecs, cess of the Az- ■ ,i ,-, i tec race. or a union with them, andon that foundation planted their empire.The territorial area over which they heldsway reached a limit of about a hundredand eighty thousand square miles. This
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CENTRAL AMERICANS.—PRIMITIVE MEXICANS. 531 wide domain of interesting and beautifulcountry they reclaimed and civilized.After two centuries or more the Span-iards came upon them with rapine, fire,and sword, leaving little behind but themelancholy and disastrous wreck of apeace-loving; nation, worthy of both theapproval and commiseration of aftertimes. The history of the life and manners of the Aztecs has been so fully displayed in American and English The Mexi pre- . ° dominate in literature that the repeti- Anahuac. ,■ ,- 1 -, • ,- tion ol even its leading fea-tures is hardly demanded in the presentwork. It appears that the Mexi, or, aswe should say, the Mexicans, having therank of seventh among the tribes, gainedthe leadership of the race and deter-mined its historical name. These itwas who made their settlement at Cha-pultepec, but having conquered theChalcos, extended their domains to in-clude the lake Chalco, where the im-perial city was builded. We should in this connecti

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:World_history
  • bookpublisher:Cincinnati___Jones
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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