Category: History - Ancient

The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child

=The People.= When the Spaniards entered Mexico, in the sixteenth century, and conquered it, they found the ruling people to be the Aztecs and whose capital city, Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), was on an island in the lake of Tezcoco. The Aztecs were not the first inhabitants of...

Chapters

14. CHAPTER XII

=Customs Relating to Land.= The settlers in the United States brought with them many of their old-world customs and some of these early customs relating to land seem to us now m...

12. CHAPTER X

=Characteristics.= It is one of the world problems to determine just the cause for the origin and building up of a great city from which arose a great nation as Rome. This is on...

13. CHAPTER XI

=Historical and Critical.= We come now to a time in Europe when there is an overturning of the greatest nation, perhaps, that has ever arisen in this world and with the highest...

11. CHAPTER IX

=Physical Characteristics.= The country of ancient Greece, as is modern Greece, was a small peninsula in Southeastern Europe, projecting into the Mediterranean Sea. It was a mou...

3. CHAPTER III

=The Country.= The desert stretching across Africa from the Atlantic Ocean on the west extends into Western Asia and in its whole extent it is broken only in one place and that...

8. did. They had plenty to keep them busy with their numerous household

duties and the making of their own clothing and that of their children. Many of them were engaged in the care of silk-worms and in tea-picking. The country wife was busy in the...

6. CHAPTER V

=Women and Marriage.= The Chinese have an old maxim that "a woman is thrice dependent; before marriage, on her father; after marriage, on her husband; when a widow, on her son."...

1. CHAPTER I

=The People.= When the Spaniards entered Mexico, in the sixteenth century, and conquered it, they found the ruling people to be the Aztecs and whose capital city, Tenochtitlan (...

4. CHAPTER IV

=Caste.= The caste system in India was the most fixed of any of the nations. In this way the natural divisions into which mankind placed itself in a free country was not allowed...

2. CHAPTER II

=The People.= The origin of the people found in Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest is unknown. The people themselves held to a tradition that the empire began with a settl...

10. CHAPTER VIII

=Historical.= We learn from their own writings that the Jews arose from peoples that lived in the region of the Euphrates, a particular tribe of whom, under the leadership of Ab...

9. CHAPTER VII

=Characteristics.= Persia proper was a table-land, lying between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, with deep valleys and rapid rivers. It was such a country, with such a cli...

7. CHAPTER VI

=Women.= Although women have always stood higher in Japan than in any other oriental country, yet they were much more highly considered in the early times than in the later time...

5. mild. Laurie quotes from Manu: "Good instruction must be given to pupils

without unpleasant sensations, and the teacher who reverences virtue must use sweet and gentle words. If a scholar is guilty of a fault, his instructor may punish him with sever...