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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eeks, Germans, or Slavs.For instance, the ferocious Huns, a people of theyellow race, rushed into Europe about 400 a.d.,but were beaten in a big battle by the Romansand Germans and finally went back to Asia.Two hundred years later, a great horde of Moorsand Arabs from Africa crossed over into Europeby way of the Straits of Gibraltar, and at onetime threatened to sweep before them all theChristian nations. For several hundred yearsafter this, they held the southern part of Spain,but were finally driven out. Let us now come back to the story of whathappened in Europe after the Romans had con-quered all the country south and west of theDanube and Rhine. The wild tribes of theGermans were restlessly roaming through the ^^^ .central part of Europe. They were not at Germanspeace with each other. In fact, constant warwas going on. Julius Caesar, the great Romangeneral, who conquered what is now France andadded it to the Roman world, tells us that onegreat tribe of Germans, the Suevi (SweVi),
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GAIUS JULIUS CAESARFrom IV bust in the British Museum The Map of Europe 35 made it their boast that they would let no other tribe live anywhere near them. About a hundred years B.C., two great German tribes, TheCimbri the Cimbri and the Teutones, broke across the Teutones Rhine and poured into the Roman lands in countless numbers. For seven years they roamed about until at last they were conquered in two bloody battles by a Roman general, who was Caesars uncle by marriage. After this time, the Romans tried to conquer the country of the Germans and they might have been successful but for a young German chief named Arminius. He had lived in Rome as a young man and had learned the Romans method of war; so when an army came against his tribe, he taught the Germans how to defend f^,^^ ° halted themselves. As a result, the Roman army was at lasttrapped in a big forest and slaughtered, almostto a man. This defeat ended any thought that theRomans may have had of conquering all Ger-many. For

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