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 . ation of re-mote antiquity, these people could butmake a strong impression on the earliesthistorical developments of the with the Egyptian race wereseveral other branches of Hamites,but nearly all of them are obscuredwith doubt as to their origin and classi-fication. Such are the old Chaldseans,who planted their empire on the LowerEuphrates as much as two thousandyears before our era; and such are theJoktanian Ara
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 . ation of re-mote antiquity, these people could butmake a strong impression on the earliesthistorical developments of the with the Egyptian race wereseveral other branches of Hamites,but nearly all of them are obscuredwith doubt as to their origin and classi-fication. Such are the old Chaldseans,who planted their empire on the LowerEuphrates as much as two thousandyears before our era; and such are theJoktanian Arabs of the south, borderingon the ocean, and such are several ofthe Canaanitish nations, with whom thegreater historical peoples came into con-tact from the seventh to the third cen-tury B. C. Many historians have re-garded the Phoenicians, the Sidonians,and the Carthaginians as of Hamiticdescent, and it is highly probable thatsome of these peoples were at least com-posite in their ethnic origin. As a gen- eral fact, it appears that the Semitic andHamitic peoples of antiquity were lesscompletely separated from each othersinfluence, less perfecth differentiated. 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
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