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Title: The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West

Author: Robert E. Anderson

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THE STORY OF EXTINCT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE WEST

by

ROBERT E. ANDERSON, M.A., F.A.S.

Author of
Extinct Civilizations of the East

[Illustration: Prehistoric Structure, Uxmal (Yucatan) (p. 76).]

[Illustration]

Venient annis saecula seris
Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum
Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus
Tethys que novos detegat orbes.

--SENECA.

New York _McClure, Phillips & Co._ MCMIV

Copyright, 1903, by
D. Appleton and Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 9

I. PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA 19

II. "DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN" 36

III. THE EXTINCT CIVILIZATION OF THE AZTECS 54

IV. AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY 71

V. MEXICO BEFORE THE SPANISH INVASION 88

VI. ARRIVAL OF THE SPANIARDS 106

VII. CORTES AND MONTEZUMA 135

VIII. BALBOA AND THE ISTHMUS 164

IX. EXTINCT CIVILIZATION OF PERU 172

X. PIZARRO AND THE INCAS 186

MAPS, ETC.