Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . h perhaps than the ordinary vicissitudes of life),the monarch raised up a temple to the Unknown God,in which neither images nor sacrifices were permitted. After somewhat more than half a century of his reign,and at a time calculated as the beginning of the lastquarter of the fifteenth century, this remarkable philo-sopher-king died, and was succeeded by his son Neza-hualpilli, who in a measure followed in his fathersfootsteps. But he also passed
Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . h perhaps than the ordinary vicissitudes of life),the monarch raised up a temple to the Unknown God,in which neither images nor sacrifices were permitted. After somewhat more than half a century of his reign,and at a time calculated as the beginning of the lastquarter of the fifteenth century, this remarkable philo-sopher-king died, and was succeeded by his son Neza-hualpilli, who in a measure followed in his fathersfootsteps. But he also passed away, his life havingbeen overshadowed to some extent by the singular beliefor prediction of the fall of his people in the coming ofthe white man from the East—a belief which influencedboth theTexcocans and the Aztecs. His son Ixtlilxochitl,the historian above named, was in power at the time ofthe conquest by the Spaniards, but he hated the Aztecswith a bitter hatred in consequence of their influenceupon his people, and the installing by the machinations I have translated this from the Spanish of IxtHlxochitl as quoted byPrescott.—C. R. THE DAWN OF MEXICO 31 of Montezuma of an elder brother upon the throne,which had plunged the kingdom into civil war. Thiswas in the second decade of the sixteenth century. The Texcocans, in conjunction with yet another andsmaller people living on the west side of the lake atTlacopan, formed with the Aztecs a confederation ortriple alliance of three republics, by which they agreedto stand together against all comers, and to divide allterritory and results of conquest in agreed carried on war and annexation around them for aconsiderable period, extending their sway far beyond theValley of Mexico, or Anahuac, which formed their home,passing the Sierra Madre mountains to the east, untilabout the middle of the fifteenth century—under Monte-zuma—the land and tribes acknowledging their swayreached to the shores of the Gulf
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