Ancient Mexico Author:Frederick Peterson Although published only a few years ago, ANCIENT MEXICO has become known as the best one-volume history of the subject in existence. Professor Peterson treats the history of pre-Hispanic Mexico, its empires, its great rise and its sudden fall, its daily life, its arts, its religions, and its social relations. — The ancient Mexicans, more civiliz... more »ed in some respects than the Spanish who conquered them, created a great, complex, and tightly interrelated civilization, comparable to any that ever existed. Although for centuries the civilizations of Mexico were regarded as primitive barbarisms, the modern view of these great American civilizations has increasingly been that, all unknown to Europe, a distinctly "modern" type of civilization was growing up in the New World.« less