The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . A PRANKISH CHIEF The Map of Europe 39 warmer climate across the mountains to thesouth they used to pull up stakes and migratein a body, never to return. It was always themore savage and uncivilized peoples who weremost likely to migrate. The lands which theywished to seize they generally found alreadysettled by other tribes, more civilized and. MOVABLE HUT8 OF EARLY GERMANS hence more peaceful, occupied in trade andagriculture, having gradually turned to thesepursuits from their former habits of huntingand fighting. Sometimes these
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . A PRANKISH CHIEF The Map of Europe 39 warmer climate across the mountains to thesouth they used to pull up stakes and migratein a body, never to return. It was always themore savage and uncivilized peoples who weremost likely to migrate. The lands which theywished to seize they generally found alreadysettled by other tribes, more civilized and. MOVABLE HUT8 OF EARLY GERMANS hence more peaceful, occupied in trade andagriculture, having gradually turned to thesepursuits from their former habits of huntingand fighting. Sometimes these more civilizedand peace-loving people were able, by theirbetter weapons and superior knowledge of theart of fortifying, to beat back the invasion of Barbariansthe immigrating barbarians. Oftener, though, overcomethe rougher, ruder tribes were the victors, and civilized 40 The Story of settled down among the people they had con-quered, to rule them, doing no work themselves,but forcing the conquered ones to feed andclothe them. History is full of instances of such conquests, and they were taking place, no doubt, ages migrations before the times from which our earliest records date. The best examples, howe\er, are to be found in the invasions of the Roman Empire
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