. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE. 25 LESSON.—The Indians were savages. The better class lived south ofNew Mexico. They built houses and temples of brick and stone. 2. AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE. The Indians, who, in the fifteenth century, were the only-inhabitants of America, were a savage people. Through thatpart of the country that extends southward from New Mexico,. A Modern Pueblo House. the natives were of a better class than those who lived farthernorth. They built houses of stone or clay, and made templesand forts of brick and s
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE. 25 LESSON.—The Indians were savages. The better class lived south ofNew Mexico. They built houses and temples of brick and stone. 2. AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE. The Indians, who, in the fifteenth century, were the only-inhabitants of America, were a savage people. Through thatpart of the country that extends southward from New Mexico,. A Modern Pueblo House. the natives were of a better class than those who lived farthernorth. They built houses of stone or clay, and made templesand forts of brick and stone. These forts were larc^e houses, five or six stories lii^-h, dividedinto many rooms. Each family had a room to itself, and thelargest fort would accommodate seveial thousand houses or forts had no doors near the ground, but there 26 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON.—They had a regular form of government, offered humansacrifices to their gods, wove cotton and ■woollen cloth and Twrote apicture language. The Indians farther north vrere barbarous. was an entrance in the roof, reached by means of ladders ex-tending from story to story, something like the fire escapes onour large buildings. In Mexico, and in other parts of the country farther south,there were great cities containing huge temples to the gods,strongly built and elegantly carved and decorated. Thehouses of the rulers and of the rich men
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