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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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talso of the vast Indie and Iranic-Aryanfamilies, as well as the still more widelydistributed Mongolian families by whichthe larger part of Asia, Polynesia, and theaboriginal Americas have been peopled. 168 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The geographical belt in question co-incides roughly with the line of the riverPrimitive races Ural, the Caspian, the divi-depart right and j of modern Persia cen- left from, a com-mon belt, trally from north to south, the Persian gulf and its outlet into theArabian sea. So far as ethnological re-search has extended, it may be averredthat all the primitive races departedfrom this belt in their primal distribu- ceptional deviations and reflections asmay be accounted for by geographicalcontingencies and the vicissitudes of dis-covery and war. So also were the Semitic and theHamitic families dispersed from thesame belt of the earths surface. If wepress the inquiry further we shall findthe first appearance of the Black raceson the eastern coast of Africa, in the
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LANDSCAPE OF ETHNIC WATERSHED.—Mountains of Jobla.—Drawn by G. Vuillier. tion in an easterly or westerly direc-tion. It was only after the migrationsof the Mongoloid races had carried themto the eastern borders of the continentagainst the Yellow sea, the sea of Japan,and the sea of Okhotsk that the lines ofethnic diffusion were bent backwards ina westerly direction across the north-ern and northwestern parts of Asia. Inlike manner from the same meridian themigrations of the European Aryans werealways to the west, with only such ex- southern part of Hindustan—the formermoving in a western direction and thelatter in an eastern—show- All non-Aryansing conclusively that the J^ofdep-aTBlack division or divi- ture-sions of mankind also departed to rightand left from a meridian almost identi-cal with, the watershed of the White andBrown races across Asia. It is hardlypressing the hypothesis beyond the war-rant of established facts to say that with-in the belt of land and sea bounded

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