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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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550 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Yucatan possesses many such ruins ofthe most extraordinary character. Thearchitectural remains of Uxmal, Chi-chen, Isamal, Mayapan, and other places,are equal in extent, if not in variety, tothe most wonderful monumental ruinsof antiquity. The Uxmal remains arethe foundations and lower walls of whatwere once massive buildings of lime-stone, built on terraced platforms, and ficial altars. These buildings wererichly ornamented with bas-reliefs andcolored designs. Whether they weretemples or palaces, or both combined,does not clearly appear; but the skilland greatness displayed in the archi-tecture can not fail to attest the great-ness of the race by which they werereared and decorated. Of the industries and arts of the
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HOUSE OF THE NUNS.—Drawn by A. de Bar, from a photograph. Remarkableruins of uncer-tain design. constructed with an architectural skillequal to that of the best builders. One of these structures, called theGovernors House, shows a groundplan with a frontage ofthree hundred and twenty-two feet. No fewer thantwenty-four compartments have beentraced within the inclosure. Otherstructures of even greater magnificence,if not of greater dimensions, are theso-called House of the Nuns andHouse of the Dwarfs. These also arebuilt on platforms, or terraces, raisedto a great height, and bearing on thesummit what appear to have been sacri- Something Industries, com.merce, and artsof the Mayas. Mayas we know but little,however, may be inferredfrom the condition ofthe people at the time ofthe Spanish conquest in America, andsomething also deduced from the pres-ent condition of the people of Yucatan.At the time of the discovery of Americathere were still rich and populous cities-in these countries.

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