. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. e Russian power was unsettled, now advancing ina south-eastern, south-western, or northern direction, now broken up I is6 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. into numerous principalities, among which those known as Great Russia Great Little (Novgorod), Little Russia (Kief), and White Russia (Moscow), andWMte were most important, and now convulsed by internecine wars between the variou
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. e Russian power was unsettled, now advancing ina south-eastern, south-western, or northern direction, now broken up I is6 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. into numerous principalities, among which those known as Great Russia Great Little (Novgorod), Little Russia (Kief), and White Russia (Moscow), andWMte were most important, and now convulsed by internecine wars between the various States. In the thirteenth century, most of the Russian principalities fell under the dominion of the Mongol Tartars, under descendants of Jenghiz Mone-oi- -^^^^7 ^^^ celebrated chief of the Mongol Empire. For about Tartar two hundred and fifty years Tartar domination was paramount, ? though a succession of Russian princes were placed at the head of the various States. A great portion of what we now know as South-east Russia was under the Tartars directly. At various times the Russians rose against their masters, but were again conquered. At the end of the fourteenth century the great conqueror, Tamerlane, took. Moscow by assault. But the western Russian States had never comeunder Tartar rule, and became absorbed in the kingdom of Lithuania. In the fifteenth century, the power of the Tartars had broken upinto several States ; and it was at last possible for Ivan, Prince of MoscowTartar yoke (l-i62-1505), to throw off the Tartar yoke, and successfullythrown off. invade their territories, conquering Kazan, where he wascrowned in 1470. He fm-ther conquered Great Russia, subduing Nov-gorod, and greatly reducing its importance. Ivan IV. in the sixteenthcentury finally overthew the Tartar empire, extended his power to theCaspian, and took Astrakan; but he lost a good deal of territory to theSwedes and Poles. It was not till 1613 that the celebrated dynasty of the Romanoflfsascended
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