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Identifier: americanencyclop00blak (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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g- THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY. ANCIENT HISTORY. The general consent of mankind points to the region of Central Asia ashaving been the original seat from which the human race dispersed itselfover the globe ; and accordingly, it is this region, and especially the west-ern portion of it, which we find to have been the theatre of the earliestrecorded transactions. In short, it was in Central Asia that the first largemass of ripened humanity was accumulated — a great central nucleus ofhuman life, so to speak, constantly enlarging, and from which emissariesincessantly streamed out over the globe in all directions. In process of timethis great central mass having swollen out till it filled Asia and Africa, brokeup into three fragments— thus giving parentage to the three leading vari-eties into which ethnographers divide the human species—the Caucasian,the Mongolian, and the Ethiopian or Negro — the Caucasians overspread-ing southern

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