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... constructed with intelligence and great labor. Most of them are terraced and truncated pyramids. In shape they are usually square or rectangular, but sometimes hexagonal or octagonal, and the higher mounds appear to have been constructed ...
... constructed with intelligence and great labor. Most of them are terraced and truncated pyramids. In shape they are usually square or rectangular, but sometimes hexagonal or octagonal, and the higher mounds appear to have been constructed ...
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... constructed as foundations of the more important edifices of the mound-building people. Many of the great buildings erected on such pyramidal foundations, at Palenque, Uxmal, and elsewhere in that region, have not disappeared, because ...
... constructed as foundations of the more important edifices of the mound-building people. Many of the great buildings erected on such pyramidal foundations, at Palenque, Uxmal, and elsewhere in that region, have not disappeared, because ...
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... constructed there, the Mound-Builders might be placed considerably higher in the scale of civilization than it has been customary to allow. It can be seen, without long study of their works as we know them, that the Mound-Builders had a ...
... constructed there, the Mound-Builders might be placed considerably higher in the scale of civilization than it has been customary to allow. It can be seen, without long study of their works as we know them, that the Mound-Builders had a ...
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... constructed with a geometrical precision which implies a kind of knowledge in the builders that may be called scientific. Figures 13, 14, 15, 16 show some of the more important works of the Mound-Builders, chiefly in Ohio. Relics of art ...
... constructed with a geometrical precision which implies a kind of knowledge in the builders that may be called scientific. Figures 13, 14, 15, 16 show some of the more important works of the Mound-Builders, chiefly in Ohio. Relics of art ...
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... constructed, shows that the works are very old; no one can tell how old. To count the years is impossible; but we can see that the date, if found, would take us back to a remote period in the past. 2. Great antiquity is indicated by the ...
... constructed, shows that the works are very old; no one can tell how old. To count the years is impossible; but we can see that the date, if found, would take us back to a remote period in the past. 2. Great antiquity is indicated by the ...
Inhalt
V MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA | |
VI ANTIQUITY OF THE RUINS | |
VII WHENCE CAME THAT OLD CIVILIZATION? | |
VIII AMERICAN ANCIENT HISTORY | |
IX THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION | |
X ANCIENT PERU | |
XI PERUVIAN ANCIENT HISTORY | |
CONCLUSION | |
APPENDIX | |
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ages ancient history antiquity appears architecture Atlantic Aztecs barbarous Brasseur de Bourbourg builders building built called Casa del Gobernador Central America character Chichen-Itza Chichimecs civilization coast Colhuas communities Conquest constructed continent Copan copper Cortez covered Cuzco decay decorations described discovered edifices Eirek existed explored extent farther south feet high feet long figure forest Greenland hewn stone Huayna Capac hundred Iceland important Incas inclosures inhabitants inscriptions island Kabah known Kukulcan Lake Titicaca land Malays masonry Mayapan Mayas mentioned Mexican Mexico and Central Mississippi Mitla Montesinos monuments Mound-Builders mounds Nahuas natives North America occupied Ohio old books old city old ruins older original ornamentation Pacific Palenque period Peru Peruvian Phoenicians preserved probably Pueblos pyramidal Quiches race region remains remarkable sailed says sculptured seen settlements Spaniards Spanish square Squier structures summit supposed temple terrace Toltecs traces Uxmal Valley Vinland voyage walls wild Indians writing Xibalba Yucatan