. 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 . AZTEC CALENDAR STONE. trivances most conducive to the welfareof men. They had an astronomy, andout of this had carefully deduced a cal-endar which surpassed in its accuracythat invented under the auspices of Ju-lius Caesar! There were eighteen Aztec month
. 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 . AZTEC CALENDAR STONE. trivances most conducive to the welfareof men. They had an astronomy, andout of this had carefully deduced a cal-endar which surpassed in its accuracythat invented under the auspices of Ju-lius Caesar! There were eighteen Aztec months,each of twenty days, and five days extrafor each year. To these were addedat intervals intercalary periods in such ings and pictorial paintings, of whichthey had innumerable. In this waythey sought not only to preserve an out-line of their history and tradition, butalso to record their thoughts and is not needed that we should enterat length into a discussion of the artsand sciences of the Aztecs. Besidestheir architecture, they practiced nearlyall the industries common to men. They. CENTRAL AMERICANS.—PRIMITIVE MEXR ANS. 535 manufactured with skill, and clothedthemselves with elegance and nobles and kingswere clad in splendid ap-parel. They gave attentionimprovements, constructedstreets and highways, built storehouses,temples, and palaces, combined the ef-fort of many workmen to accomplish Manufacturesand public en-terprises. to public had many, and to them they offered sac-rifices by the agency of the priests, whoconstituted an order of the highest rank,collateral with the nobility. The sacrifice which the Aztec priestsmade at stated intervals to the deities ofthe race was of the usual two kinds,namely, of the products of the earth andof living beings; but the bloody aspect
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