Mediaeval and modern history . Longitude. 2000 Jiig the Kquator EXPLOIIATIONS AND COLONIESOF THE 15TH, 16TH,AND 17TII CENTURIESBRITISH [ sPAiNisii r~ FREKCII C DANISH PORTUGUESE [ 1HT<.II British and French Rival Claims Q I ? woBics, Buffalo Longitude -10 East from 60 Greenwich 80 THE CONQUEST OF PERU 287 The Aztecs, at the time of the discovery of America, hadreached what is called the middle stage of barbarism, — astage of culture which the Mediterranean races had reachedand passed probably two thousand years before Christ. Theyemployed a system of picture-writing. Their religion was
Mediaeval and modern history . Longitude. 2000 Jiig the Kquator EXPLOIIATIONS AND COLONIESOF THE 15TH, 16TH,AND 17TII CENTURIESBRITISH [ sPAiNisii r~ FREKCII C DANISH PORTUGUESE [ 1HT<.II British and French Rival Claims Q I ? woBics, Buffalo Longitude -10 East from 60 Greenwich 80 THE CONQUEST OF PERU 287 The Aztecs, at the time of the discovery of America, hadreached what is called the middle stage of barbarism, — astage of culture which the Mediterranean races had reachedand passed probably two thousand years before Christ. Theyemployed a system of picture-writing. Their religion was a sortof sun worship. They were cannibals and offered human victimsin their sacrifices. They had no knowledge of the horse or theox, or of any other useful domesticated animal except the dog.^*They cultivated maize, but were without wheat, oats, or held their lands in common, and lived in communal orjoint-tenement houses, which were large enough to accommo-date from ten to one hundred famiHes. It was these immensestructur
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