. Elementary physical geography;. blood developed the fighting powers of themixed race, which led to the conquest of the greater part of the Western Roman Empire had broken into fragments, theLatin language was finally modified by the different races who hadadopted it, to Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. But theSpanish were a mixture of Keltic and Iberian blood, the French wereof Keltic and Gallic stock, and the Portuguese of Keltic, Gallic, andIberian descent. A certainamount of Roman blood wasintermixed with all these peoples, but in hardly an in- <r , „ stance is the
. Elementary physical geography;. blood developed the fighting powers of themixed race, which led to the conquest of the greater part of the Western Roman Empire had broken into fragments, theLatin language was finally modified by the different races who hadadopted it, to Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. But theSpanish were a mixture of Keltic and Iberian blood, the French wereof Keltic and Gallic stock, and the Portuguese of Keltic, Gallic, andIberian descent. A certainamount of Roman blood wasintermixed with all these peoples, but in hardly an in- <r , „ stance is there physically arace characteristic amongthem that is distinctivelyRoman. A similar mixturetook place in the case of theEnglish people. Althoughpopularly known as Anglo-Saxons, the amalgamation isfar more extensive; it in-cludes Angles, Saxons, Jutes,and Danes, together with ageneral mixture of Gothicblood. To this must alsobe added the infusion ofLatin blood that came withthe Norman Conquest, amatter of far greater \\ WHITE TYPE: A REPRESENTATIVE OFTHE HIGHEST CIVILIZATION The Teutonic, Latin, Sclavonic, and Keltic branches ofthis family now constitute the most powerful nations inthe world. They occupy most of Europe and the greaterpart of North America. The Semitic family comprises the Hebrews, Moors, Arabs,and Abyssinians. The Assyrians and the Phoenicians werealso of this family, but they have been absorbed, or dis- 342 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY persed by conquest. The Hebrews or Jews hold the chiefposition among Semitic peoples. For about four thousandyears, in spite of fearful odds against them, they have hada commanding position. Springing from a family whose native place was not farfrom Syria, the Jews became a nation of considerable im-portance. Because ofsteadfastness to theirfaith, neither slavery norconquest has extermi-nated them. Diffusedover the earth, they arenumerically about asstrong as ever they were,and their religion andceremonial rites are asmarked
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