. 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. ed themselves to Xen- thlS^^rSth °^ophon and the ten thou- ^^^ on their ever memorable name appears in the Assyriantongue as Gardu, or Kardu, and theethnic terms seem originally to have des-ignated a Turanian nation lying ratherto the nor
. 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. ed themselves to Xen- thlS^^rSth °^ophon and the ten thou- ^^^ on their ever memorable name appears in the Assyriantongue as Gardu, or Kardu, and theethnic terms seem originally to have des-ignated a Turanian nation lying ratherto the north, and, so to speak, hangingover the countries and cities of is believed that during the Assyrianascendency the Kardu maintained asemiindependence. After the captureof Nineveh, hoY\ever, by the Medes, theKurds coalesced with the conqueringrace, and jDresently became predominantin the broad region which they haveever since occupied. AVe must note,moreover, that the Median conquest ofAssyria, and the subsequent interfusionof that powerful stock with the peoplesinhabiting the basin of the Tigris,necessarily gave an Aryan caste to thesubsequent development of the Kurdishrace. It is for this reason that the clas-sification of the modern Kurds is so diffi-cult ; but there are good grounds forregarding them as the lineal, though. *^%v
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