. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. and Northern Hun-gary the extreme dispersion of theparent race. Again the reader must benotified of the interpenetration in theseregions of the two stocks, Slavic andTeutonic. Bohemia is largely, but notwholly, occupied by the Czechs—thisnotwithstanding th
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. and Northern Hun-gary the extreme dispersion of theparent race. Again the reader must benotified of the interpenetration in theseregions of the two stocks, Slavic andTeutonic. Bohemia is largely, but notwholly, occupied by the Czechs—thisnotwithstanding the Germanic relationsof the country in its civil and politicallife. Without doubt Bohemia was afore-time a Celtic country. It was the landof the Boii, w^ell-known to the studentof classical history. These in course oftime were overrun by the German Mar-comanni, who brought with them Teu-tonic institutions and Christianity. Afteranother period in came the vSlavs fromthe East, and both the Germanic andthe Celtic peoples yielded to their like manner the Avars sought to over- 188 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. power the Slavic conquerors, but failedin the effort. The Slavs took the reli-^ous and, in some measure, the political, It is hardly needed that we shouldrecount the physical character and re-sources of the country before us. The. BOHEMIAN MAN AND WOMAN character of the Germans who had pre-ceded them. Thus as a country of mixednationalities Bohemia made her waythrough the Middle Ages. In thefifteenth century the Hussite reformationfound here its scene of action. — i \ Pkb—Drawn by V. Foulquier. means of subsistence for man in theseregions, and the reactions of Resources ofnature upon him, are com- ^Jrof^niSmon with those of a large of Central Europe. The productsof the earth are identical in most partic- THE SLA J \S.—CZIi CHS. 189 ulars with those of the greater part ofGermany, France, Holland, and the NewWorld. The animal life is of like char-acter thro
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