Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . HAMITIC TYPE—THE EGYPTIAN by A. de Bar. into diverse types of race development,than any other two branches of theprimitive family of men. 4. Tlic Altaian Races.—The great no-madic peoples having the highlands of 418 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the Altais as their original habitat havebeen designated by many terms, andThe Altaian there is yet much confusionnSofThT in their attempted classifi-Tartars. cation. Even the major
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . HAMITIC TYPE—THE EGYPTIAN by A. de Bar. into diverse types of race development,than any other two branches of theprimitive family of men. 4. Tlic Altaian Races.—The great no-madic peoples having the highlands of 418 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the Altais as their original habitat havebeen designated by many terms, andThe Altaian there is yet much confusionnSofThT in their attempted classifi-Tartars. cation. Even the major divisions of these races are not wellmade out. One of the broadest divisionsis the Tartar family, spreading to thenorth and east over a great part ofAsia. It is still in dispute -whether. ;.TO/iT. ALTAIAN TYPE—OLD by E. Ronjat, from a photograph. the Tartars and Mongolians should beconsidered as primary ethnic divisionsof mankind, or whether the Mongolianbranch of the south has been deflectedfrom the Tartar group of the north. Aswe shall presently see, this great assem-blage of semicivilized races, nomadicover the vast steppes of the north andin a low grade of development in thesouth, is defined by the term Turanian in the linguistic division of men. Butfor historical purposes the whole groupmay best be classified and named fromits geographical center on the northernslopes of the Altais. The White Tar-tars, or Turcomans, as the westernmostdivision of the great Altaian group,have, by their aggressions in Asia Minor,Syria, and Eastern Europe, brought thefamily of nations to which they belonginto historical relationship with the Indo-European race, and have thus preservedunto the present time at least the rem-iniscence of the prowess for whichthey were c
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