. A complete geography. FiG. 30. The pueblo of Taos in New Mexico. Notice the ladders leading to the roofs upon which are the house entrances. PEOPLES 2T. Fig. carrying a decoratedpottery jar. barous and savage tribes. They mined goldand silver and manufactured the metals intovarious articles ; they wove blankets, and orna-mented their pottery and their buildings in anartistic manner. Living the quiet life of thefarmer, the Aztecs perferred peace to war,and a settled home to the nomadic life of thehunter. While some tribes thus approached a state of civilization, the Indians, as a ra
. A complete geography. FiG. 30. The pueblo of Taos in New Mexico. Notice the ladders leading to the roofs upon which are the house entrances. PEOPLES 2T. Fig. carrying a decoratedpottery jar. barous and savage tribes. They mined goldand silver and manufactured the metals intovarious articles ; they wove blankets, and orna-mented their pottery and their buildings in anartistic manner. Living the quiet life of thefarmer, the Aztecs perferred peace to war,and a settled home to the nomadic life of thehunter. While some tribes thus approached a state of civilization, the Indians, as a race, never became a powerful people. For this there are several reasons. Instead of forming one great confederacy and living at peace with one another, they were divided into many tribes. Each tribe had a certain area over which it could roam and hunt; but if it encroached upon its neighbors, war followed. Under these cir-cumstances it was difficult for one tribe to advance to a much higher state of civilization than the others. The level nature of the country rendered this difficulty all the greater. Had the surface of North America been very mount
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