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 .. . rits great yield of grains and fruits. Manhas virtually exhausted the whole regionby his careless administration. He hasconsumed the current resources of thecountry and provided nothing in theirplace. The result has been the creationof great deserts on this area once cov- 552 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ered with grain-bearing- fields and or-chards and vineyards. This was the work of the Aryan peo-ples who came into L
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 .. . rits great yield of grains and fruits. Manhas virtually exhausted the whole regionby his careless administration. He hasconsumed the current resources of thecountry and provided nothing in theirplace. The result has been the creationof great deserts on this area once cov- 552 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ered with grain-bearing- fields and or-chards and vineyards. This was the work of the Aryan peo-ples who came into Lesser Asia andAsia Minor more there developed the early modified than L Eastemor states which flourished un- NoithernEu- ,., n 111 rope> til they were crushed be- tween Persia and Europe. But if wefollow the northwestern line of Aryan The migratory tribes generally effect-ed no change in the regions throughwhich they passed. Their Variable power vocations of hunters and of races as mod-mast-eaters did not inter- l^m^a^ens-fere writh the natural course of the phys-ical world. At the beginnings of au-thentic history Germany and Gaul andBritain were in the primeval UNMODIFIED ENVIRONMENT OF MAN.—View of Sonmarg.—Drawn by G. Vuillier, from a photograph. migration into Northern Europe, weshall pursue our inquiry far before wecome upon another country so greatlymodified by the agency of man. Thesouthern peninsulas of Europe wereearly transformed from their nativestate into habitable territories, but thevaster regions north of the Alps and theCarpathians remained in the wild. In general, the Celtic race accomplishedbut a slight transformation in the phys-ical landscape. The Grasco-Italic peo-ples wrought successfully in establish-ing themselves locally upon the soil andin changing the face of nature. Indeed,this is what is implied in civilization. Within certain limits, the transforma-tion of the surface of the earth is coin- DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHAR
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