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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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e between the Oxus and theCaspian. Here a single Indo-Europeanfamily is represented whichdoubtless owes its originto the very primitivemovement just described.kalpacks, whose territory lies immedi-ately north of the Atrek river, whichempties into the Lower Caspian fromthe east, are probably of Aryan descent, Northern limitsof Aryan disper-sion in Asia. The Kara- 4S4 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. as arc also a second tribe, called the Us-beks, who have their habitat further tothe north ; also the Tadshiks, holding thecountry immediately south of the sea ofAral, at the debouchure of the Oxus, areIndo-Europeans, and are the northern-most of the Aryan peoples of Asia east-ward of the Caspian sea. the Caucasus. Defined in terms of an-cient geography, the course was acrossMedia, through Atropatene and Ar-menia Major. In all this region—suchwas its geographical constitution—themigratory race appears to have held to-gether. Indeed, it was not possible thatthere should be dispersion in a country
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CAUCASIAN TVPF.S.—Georgian Women.—Drawn by Eugene Burnand, from a photograph. In the meantime a still stronger mi-gratory movement of the Aryans hadtaken place directly to the Sources of the race movement west. The stream of de- into Europe. .., . . -, parturc m this ease carriedin its current the potency of all the Eu-ropean nations. It extended primarilysouth of the Caspian along the upperparts of Mesopotamia, and was heldfrom northern deflection by the spurs of so confined. All of the ancient stateswhich we have just mentioned werestrongly Aryan in their original popula-tion, from which circumstance it is easyto discern howr Aryan influences wouldpress upon ancient Assyria from theeast and modify that nationality by theinfusion of many foreign elements. Themodern countries of Mazanderan, Arda-lan, and Adarbijan hold a similar rela- DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—WEST ARYAN MIGRATIONS. 485 planted on thelines of the outgoing. tion to the Mesopotamian regions, andthe pressure of th

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