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 . t of the agricultural and domes-tic life; and it is from this point thatone of the striking divergencies in thelanguages of Ii-an and India may be no-ticed. The domestic animals are namedin common by the two peoples, whilethe wild beasts are generally designatedby distinct terms invented after the sep-aration of the races. The Iranian life thus presented somediverse and peculiar aspects. It was inone respect the half-barbarous l
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 . t of the agricultural and domes-tic life; and it is from this point thatone of the striking divergencies in thelanguages of Ii-an and India may be no-ticed. The domestic animals are namedin common by the two peoples, whilethe wild beasts are generally designatedby distinct terms invented after the sep-aration of the races. The Iranian life thus presented somediverse and peculiar aspects. It was inone respect the half-barbarous life of thechase, and in another respect the civil- 580 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. izing life of the field and the proportion as the first prevailed, theBoth methods old nomadic and migratoryof life combine iniDulse of the race was m the race char- ^ aoter. stimulated into activity; in proportion as the other became predom-inant, the people were aggregated intosettled communities and began to buildcities and states. It is worthy of notethat the origin of several world-wide va-rieties of fruits, such as apples, peaches,and plums, has been assigned to ANIMAL LIFE OF PERSIA.—AN OX OF THE by A, L. Clement, after a photograph by Madame Dieulafoy. It is quite likely that the primitive Medo-Persian peoples were the first to cultivateand improve these valuable products ofthe vegetable kingdom. The social evolution among- this an- The definition of apple-eating animal mightbe given to the Old Iranian and to all of his Asiaticand European descendants. The word apple, be-ginning with the Zend and Sanskrit ap phala,meaning fruit of the water, or juicy fruit, iscommon in every single dialect of the Aryan lan-guages ! It might be difficult to point out any otherterm of like universality among the names of thethings eaten by men. cient race took the course of a subsid-ence from the nomadic into the agri-cultural and pastoral life. The sedentaryThe change was ver
Size: 1882px × 1328px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecad, booksubjectworldhistory, bookyear1895
