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 . fShem migiaiiunb ui piiiiULlve and Ham. mankind. The narrative begins with the descendants of Noah,the survivors of a deluge. His threesons become the progenitors of the threedominant races which go forth to peoplethe world. The progenies of Shem,Ham, and Japheth, according to theirfamilies and tribes, are dispersed inthe various countries of Western Asia,Northern Africa, and Eastern Europe. In general, this account assigns toSh
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 . fShem migiaiiunb ui piiiiULlve and Ham. mankind. The narrative begins with the descendants of Noah,the survivors of a deluge. His threesons become the progenitors of the threedominant races which go forth to peoplethe world. The progenies of Shem,Ham, and Japheth, according to theirfamilies and tribes, are dispersed inthe various countries of Western Asia,Northern Africa, and Eastern Europe. In general, this account assigns toShem and his family the Elamites, the Assyrians, Arphaxad and Lud andAram. According to this scheme Eberis the grandson or descendant of Arphax-ad, from which we are able to see emerg-ing dimly at least three historical peoples—the Elamites, the Assyrians, and theHebrews. Among the sons of Ham arementioned Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut,and Canaan, with their respective de-scendants. To Cush is assigned Nimrodand his historical progeny. Mizraim isdoubtless the original tribal name of theEgyptians, while Canaan, whose sons areSidon and Heth, is clearly the ancestor. CUSHITE TYPE—SHEIK OF by H. Thiriat, from a photograph by Mouga!. of the Canaanitish races of subsequenttimes. The generations of Japheth are saidto be Gomer and Magog and Madaiand Javan and Tubal and japheth dissem-Meshech and Tiras. To jl^ated into the isles of the each of these is given a fam- of sons and descendants, and theyare said to have distributed themselvesamong the isles of the gentiles, ev-ery one after his tongue, after their fam-ilies, in their nations. In the case ofJapheth, also, we are able to detect the 414 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. historical beginning of nations, especial-ly in the case of his son Madai, who isthought to have given his name to theancient Medes. Besides what is herepresented in outline, a place must be leftin the ethnic scheme for the direct de-scendants of
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