. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. nation—a proselytising company of Ma-hometans who have succeeded inabsorbing many subject and diverseraces by force, or in making themassume the outward garb of Ma-hometanism. They are Mongolian -^ origin of the truly a Mongoloid people,^^ * not Semitic like the Sara-cens, although they entered Europeby the southern route, from AsiaMinor. They are the last of thegreat invader
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. nation—a proselytising company of Ma-hometans who have succeeded inabsorbing many subject and diverseraces by force, or in making themassume the outward garb of Ma-hometanism. They are Mongolian -^ origin of the truly a Mongoloid people,^^ * not Semitic like the Sara-cens, although they entered Europeby the southern route, from AsiaMinor. They are the last of thegreat invaders of Europe. Sincetheir coming, Europe has reversedthe order of history since the Romantime. Spain, Holland, and GreatBritain have repeated the Roman deeds of conquest, and peopled widertracts of the earth than Romans ever saw. The name Turk is a wide one, taking in a great many Mongolpeople, including most of the inhabitants of Turkestan. But the rulingThe ottoman class in Turkey are distinguished as Ottoman or OsmanliTurks. Turks, from Othman or Osman, their first great leader(1299-1326). Their history in Asia will be referred to elsewhere. Afterconsiderable struggles, the Ottoman Turks took Adrianople in 1361. 208 : I TFIE TURKS. 209 Tliey made rapid conquests under the first Sultan Bajazet (1389-1402),over the varied and disunited races of the Balkan peninsula, Earlyconquering or plundering the greater part of it, but not as conquests,yet possessing Constantinople. But Timor or Tamerlanes great victoryat Angora (1402) checked the Turkish advance for a time, until Mahomet -•^r«.V
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