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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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ANCIENT PERUVIAN POTTERY.—From Ma izineo/Art. Peru. Here they came into contact witha civilized people having great citiesand many arts. They were living muchin the manner of Europeans: cultivat-ing the soil; domesticating many of theanimals, including the alpaca goat andthe llama; substituting the native potatoand the quinoa for the cereals of theEuropean countries ; raising from thesoil great fields of Indian corn and oca;manufacturing woolen goods equal to language — the Quichuan — which hasgiven a name to the race. ° , Intellectual at- They had intellectual ac- tammentsof .. .. ™., . r the Quichuas. tivity. 1 heir fancy wasfree, and their knowledge of both na-ture and art extensive. They had de-veloped a fair measure of science, atleast such science as is based on themore conspicuous phenomena of theearth and the heavens. Like the Aztecs,they had a carefully calculated solar
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564 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. year, and like them they used symboli-cal writings, to which they added aunique method of recording facts bymeans of knotted cords. In this manner the Ouichuas laid thefoundations of history. Their publiclife showed a large degreeof activity. There waspolitical excitement and aconflict of parties. There were public Activity of pub-lic life; high re-ligious develop-ment.

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