An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . RELIQTTES OF ANCIENT MEXICO. 79 purposes of colonization, the monuments of Mexico civilizationwere everywhere destroyed, leaving nothing to future generationsbut the broken relics of palaces, temples, and other objects of art,scattered amidst the wilderness. Some of these ruined monu-ments, recently explored by Stephens and other travellers, showthat the ancient Mexicans had made
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . RELIQTTES OF ANCIENT MEXICO. 79 purposes of colonization, the monuments of Mexico civilizationwere everywhere destroyed, leaving nothing to future generationsbut the broken relics of palaces, temples, and other objects of art,scattered amidst the wilderness. Some of these ruined monu-ments, recently explored by Stephens and other travellers, showthat the ancient Mexicans had made remarkable advances in socialMe as well as in the arts, more particularly architecture ; and whatrenders all such relics the more interesting to the archaeologist is, thegrowing conviction, that the old Mexican civilization was of anoriginal type—a thing noway derived from, or connected with, thecivilization of Egypt, or any other nation in the eastern TXlrlC KATION OF AN A. Q t K T> U O T IN S£ B X I O O 6 INTIBIOR OF A MEXICAN H O O S 2, CHAPTER V. RECENT HISTORY OF MEXICO. FTER two ye^Ts of continuous and laboriouswarfare, Cortes succeeded in overturningthe empire of the Aztecs, and the smallerstates were subjected to the Spaniards al-most without a struggle. The positionwhich the Spaniards held with respect tothe natives of the country very much re-sembling that of the nations of German ori-gin who overturned the Roman empire andseliled in the countries of Western Europe. Like them, the Spa-uii^rds were obliged to establish a kind of feudal system, to protect
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