* We cannot seek the analogy which we desire in Egypt because, as
we have seen, the religion of Egypt has back of it some elements of Uie
oasis civilization. Nor can we turn to India, China, or Japan with any
success because there the primitive agricultural religious product ban long
been displaced by more philosophical systems, or tortured by them into
unrecognizable forms.
* The International Geography^ p. 776.
* Cf . Payne's History of America, Vol. I, pp. 462, 616, 620, and VoL
n, p. 480.
» Cf. Payne, op. cie., VoL I, p. 618.
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primitive northern home before they migrated to the South
and became conquerors.^

The civilization resulting from this Aztec conquest was
in many respects quite advanced. Property was organ-
ized for the nobles on a hereditary basis, and for the com-
mon people on a communal basis. Taxes were raised in
kind, as was the case in good degree in Babylonia.
Slaves, as in the latter country, did the laborious work.
