The ages and ages that have gone by, with new civilizations growing up and dying out." "I feel like I was in a land older than the solar system," said Jimmie.
"What became of the Toltecs ?" "They were crowded out by the Aztecs somewhere about the twelfth century.

The Aztecs were warlike and cruel.

It is said that they murdered twenty thousand victims a year on the altars of their gods.
They were able people, too, but murderous in all their instincts.

They were cultivated to a degree far above the other peoples of the North American continent at that time, but they lacked the feelings of humanity as expressed to-day.
"They built temples--mounds of clay faced with brick, surmounted by great towers where the priests dwelt.

It was at the summits of these mounds, on a sacrificial stone, before all the people who could get in view, that the victims of their religious frenzy were slain.
"Then Cortes came, in fifteen hundred and something, and the deluge of blood began.