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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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iches greatly surpassed theirmodern descendants. CENTRAL AMERICANS.—QUICHES AND MAYA: 553 In Western Yucatan and Guatemala we find the ancient race of the Nahoas. This people is thought to Place of the Na- L l , & hoas in the eth- have bcCll originally, per-nio scheme. , i r ,1 /-^1 • , ■ haps before the Christianera, the vanguard of that tribal move-ment from the north which, beginningwith the Pueblos of New Mexico, re-sulted in fixing the populations of Mex-ico and Central America in those formsin which they were found by the Span-iards at the beginning of the sixteenth ments of succeeding ages. The Nahoas,who appear to have begun the move-ment, were themselves borne forwardby the wave. Behind them came theToltecs, then the Chichimecs, and thenthe Aztecs. The first named race wasthus thrust forward beyond the isthmusof Tehuantepec into Guatemala andNicaragua. There the Nahoas did their best workin civilization. It is believed by anti-quarians that many of the finest raonu-
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TOLTEC BAS-RELIEFS.—Pyramid of Kab-ul.-Drawn by Eugene Burnand, from a photograph. century. It is thought that the Nahoafamily came from the north into Mexicobefore the Toltecs had laid there thefoundation of that civilization whichtheir successors so highly developed. The reader will understand that allthese races, from the Pueblos to thoseCentralAmer- now under consideration,are but successive evolu-tions of the same humanstock. Perhaps there were still olderraces in this region of whom the acutestmodern scholarship can catch but faintglimpses in the languages and monu- icans arise fromsuccessive evo-lutions. mental remains in this part of CentralAmerica were the work of the Nahoasrather than of the later Nahoas spring Toltec races who developed from a Toitecinto the Mayas and theQuiches. Beyond the evidence whichsuch ancient monuments bear relative tothe character of the Nahoa family, andbeyond the glimpses which we catch oftheir character in their descendants ofGuatemala, we kno

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