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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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NDSCAPE 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 by
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M.—Vol. i—12 170 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the fiftieth and sixty-fifth meridians oflongitude east from Greenwich the firstfountains of man-life in the earth areto be discovered. Under this hypothesis it still remainsto be decided in what part of the belt re-ferred to, viewed from Recent arrival 1 of the supra- north to south, the primal Caspian races. ^^ q£ manldnd are most likely to be found. First of all, we mayexclude the north. Nothing is moreclear than that the races now inhabitingthe region north of the Caspian, includ-ing the countries drained by the Uraland the Volga, have made their way intothose semiarctic countries by toilsomeand comparatively recent migrations.We have every reason to believe thatthe Kirgheez, the Calmucks, the Cossacksof the Don, and the Russian Mongols ingeneral are newcomers in the countrieswhich they now occupy. Hereafter we shall see that man, as an animal, was not in his primitive state adapted to the rigors of such situations as those lying betwe

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