The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West

"The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West" by Robert E. Anderson is a historical work that travels back to the early 1900s and examines different, vanished societies of the Americas. It covers important subjects like what happened before Columbus "discovered" America, the impressive Aztec culture, and when the Vikings sailed to North America. The book explains how these societies helped form America's history and how things radically changed when Europeans arrived. The book starts by giving us the world of fifteenth-century Europe and explaining what people thought about geography and civilization back then and the wrong ideas that made exploring harder. It leads into chapters about the Vikings in America and the world of the Aztecs, promising stories of remarkable and often forgotten civilizations.