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قراءة كتاب The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest

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The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest

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  • The tlatocan, or tribal council 109
  • The cihuacoatl, or "snake-woman" 110
  • The tlacatecuhtli, or "chief-of-men" 111
  • Evolution of kingship in Greece and Rome 112
  • Mediæval kingship 113
  • Montezuma was a "priest-commander" 114
  • Mode of succession to the office 114, 115
  • Manner of collecting tribute 116
  • Mexican roads 117
  • Aztec and Iroquois confederacies contrasted 118
  • Aztec priesthood; human sacrifices 119, 120
  • Aztec slaves 121, 122
  • The Aztec family 122, 123
  • Aztec property 124
  • Mr. Morgan's rules of criticism 125
  • He sometimes disregarded his own rules 126
  • Amusing illustrations from his remarks on "Montezuma's Dinner" 126-128
  • The reaction against uncritical and exaggerated statements was often carried too far by Mr. Morgan 128, 129
  • Great importance of the middle period of barbarism 130
  • The Mexicans compared with the Mayas 131-133
  • Maya hieroglyphic writing 132
  • Ruined cities of Central America 134-138
  • They are probably not older than the twelfth century 136
  • Recent discovery of the Chronicle of Chicxulub 138
  • Maya culture very closely related to Mexican 139
  • The "Mound-Builders" 140-146
  • The notion that they were like the Aztecs 142
  • Or, perhaps, like the Zuñis 143
  • These notions are not well sustained 144
  • The mounds were probably built by different peoples in the lower status of barbarism, by Cherokees, Shawnees, and other tribes 144, 145
  • It is not likely that there was a "race of Mound Builders" 146
  • Society in America at the time of the Discovery had reached stages similar to stages reached by eastern Mediterranean peoples fifty or sixty centuries earlier 146, 147

    • CHAPTER II.
    PRE-COLUMBIAN VOYAGES.

    • Stories of voyages to America before Columbus; the Chinese 148
    • The Irish. 149
    • Blowing and drifting; Cousin, of Dieppe 150
    • These stories are of small value 150
    • But the case of the Northmen is quite different 151
    • The Viking exodus from Norway 151, 152
    • Founding of a colony in Iceland, A. D. 874 153
    • Icelandic literature 154
    • Discovery of Greenland, A. D. 876 155, 156
    • Eric the Red, and his colony in Greenland, A. D. 986 157-161
    • Voyage of Bjarni Herjulfsson 162
    • Conversion of the Northmen to Christianity 163
    • Leif Ericsson's voyage, A. D. 1000; Helluland and Markland 164
    • Leif's winter in Vinland 165, 166
    • Voyages of Thorvald and Thorstein 167
    • Thorfinn Karlsefni, and his unsuccessful attempt to found a colony in Vinland, A. D. 1007-10 167-169
    • Freydis, and her evil deeds in Vinland, 1011-12 170, 171
    • Voyage into Baffin's Bay, 1135 172
    • Description of a Viking ship discovered at Sandefiord, in Norway 173-175
    • To what extent the climate of Greenland may have changed within the last thousand years 176, 177
    • With the Northmen once in Greenland, the discovery of the American continent was inevitable 178

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