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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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continents. We are not here much concerned withgeography, but rather with ethnicalconsiderations. We may, The Quicheshowever, define the races *£»££*£before us as Central Amer- America,icans. We find here first of all, in thebroadest part of the country, includ-ing Yucatan and (Guatemala, the race ofthe Mava-Ouiches. This is one of themost famous of the peoples of the south-ern parts of our continent. Of this stockthere were several divisions. First ofthese were the Mayas proper, of Yuca-tan ; secondly, the Quiches, of Honduras ;and thirdly, the Nahoas, of Guatemala.Further south, in Flonduras, we havethe second general division of theCentral Americans, called the Chontals.This name may be used for all thenative tribes as far south as Panama.These more general divisions of thehuman stock under consideration aresubdivided into a multitude of unclassi-fied tribes which may best be consideredin the aggregate. In commenting upon these races wemay remark, first of all, of the Mayas of
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STREET BETWEEN THE TWO PALACES AT EK-BALAM, YUCATAN.—Drawn by D. Lancelot, from a photograph. 548 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Yucatan, that they have perhaps beenas little disturbed within the historicalperiod as any other exist- vented so extraordinary a system ofhieroglyphics for itself. On the arrival of the Spaniards inCentral America they found rich and Emplacement and affinities of mg race of people. A second general observation powerful nations, of peace- Achievements of is the evident affinity of the Mayas with ! able pursuits and varied J^SScSi85 the ancient Aztecs. In several particu- ; industries, occupying the remains. lars the analogies of the two peoples are I country. They were, however, not

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