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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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barbarism. Others reached as high as asemicivilized estate. Tribes of the lat-ter kind corresponded in their physicaland intellectual life to the peoples of thestone and bronze ages of Europe, or, per-haps, we should say more nearly tothose of the copper age. Among most of our aborigines agri-culture was practiced to a limited degree. NOR THERN A B ORIGINES. —A R TS. 483 Here we meet with our native Indiancorn. Other products, such as squashes, Agriculturalproductions ofour Red men. beans, and tobacco, werecultivated with some suc-cess. Further to the souththe things grown extended to plantains,cassava, etc. The reader is acquaintedwith the life and products of the people ited. With iron our Red men were un-acquainted until they learned its natureand uses from the Whites.Of copper they had a lim-ited knowledge. Someof the more advanced tribes perhapssmelted this metal, but generally thenative ore was rudely hammered into Small range ofnative manufac-tures.
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INDIAN ARMS, ORNAMENTS. AND UTENSILS.-Drawn by D. Lancelot, from descriptions. of the West Indies at the time of thediscovery of America. There many sub-tropical and tropical fruits and vegeta-bles were produced ; but the agriculturallife in none of these countries was vastor varied. The Indians in general werenot acquainted with flax, hemp, and thelike fibrous growths, which, had theyknown them, would have been of sogreat and ready value. The manufacturing life was also lim- shape for weapons, and rarely for uten-sils. As a rule the weaponry was de-rived rather from the residue of themanufacture of preceding races thanfrom the shops and furnaces of theIndians themselves. We here approach the remarkable factof the stone weapons and Question ofimplements so abundantly f^^Tenlpossessed by our Indian considered,races. These were, with few excep- 484 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. tions, the work of the unknown prehis-toric peoples who had previously occupiedthe continent. To the present day the

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