A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . hof the Caspian Sea, between tlieVolga and the Ural second son, Jagatai, inheritedmost of Turkestan; his fourthson, Tuli, received Persia. Histhird son, Oktai, succeeded him,and ruled as suzerain the wholeempire (Plate XIV.) from tin-Euphrates to the Indus, andfrom the slopes of the Iranianhighlands in the south, to thenorthern Asiatic stepjjes. Hemade Karakoram, the old capitalof the Koraites, his after liis death tlie rest ofthe Khwarismian kingdom, Georgia, Armenia, and the
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . hof the Caspian Sea, between tlieVolga and the Ural second son, Jagatai, inheritedmost of Turkestan; his fourthson, Tuli, received Persia. Histhird son, Oktai, succeeded him,and ruled as suzerain the wholeempire (Plate XIV.) from tin-Euphrates to the Indus, andfrom the slopes of the Iranianhighlands in the south, to thenorthern Asiatic stepjjes. Hemade Karakoram, the old capitalof the Koraites, his after liis death tlie rest ofthe Khwarismian kingdom, Georgia, Armenia, and the land of theSeljuks fell under Mongolian power, Batu undertook an invasionof Europe with the main force. After overcoming the White Bul-garians he smote the Russians. On the Germanic migrations turning to the southwest, a complexmixture of Slav races had settled in the vast lowlands of EasternEurope. They were politically disunited and iinolved in endlessfeuds. Consequently, the story goes, they applied to some Scandi-navian adventurers for help about the middle of the ninth Fig. Ifiö. — Mongolian iron helmet, withsold i-hasing and Arabian , Kremlin. PLAT
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