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 .. . he northern division, now represented in Turkestan, was the the south were the old races of the Medes and Persians. The ancientPersians, as will be seen, developed into several modern families. Out of thisline sprang the Afghans, and further to the south the Beluchs. Far to thenorth, from the original Iranian stem, arise the Bactrians, one of the oldestfamilies of this division. The migratory stem of the
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 .. . he northern division, now represented in Turkestan, was the the south were the old races of the Medes and Persians. The ancientPersians, as will be seen, developed into several modern families. Out of thisline sprang the Afghans, and further to the south the Beluchs. Far to thenorth, from the original Iranian stem, arise the Bactrians, one of the oldestfamilies of this division. The migratory stem of the East Indian races is indicated by the wordIndicans. From this stem arise the Punjabese; and from this stock, in turn,the old Brahmans, in the valley of the Indus; and the great Hindu family,farther to the East. From the Punjabese stem, we have the modern Nepa-lese. From the Hindu stem, we have the great races of the Mahrattas, theBengalese, etc. From the Bengalese division, at its easternmost extreme, wehave the Indo-Burmese family, which is the remotest Asiatic division of theEast Aryan races. The Chart covers about fifty degrees of longitude, andtwenty degrees of Jnvl ©Ijiriu THE RUDDY RACES. East Aryans. BOOK IRANIANS. Chapter XXXIII .-Elementary Character and Religion.
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