Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . de-termine into which of the Black seaprovinces this di-vision was led and distributed. Thereis general consent that the famous savagerace of Scythians were theoffspring of Magog. Someethnographers have re-ferred the Turanians in general to thisorigin, and others have derived theCircassians, inhabiting the mountainousdistrict between the Caspian and theBlack sea, from the Magogian stock. Concerning the Madai, who
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . de-termine into which of the Black seaprovinces this di-vision was led and distributed. Thereis general consent that the famous savagerace of Scythians were theoffspring of Magog. Someethnographers have re-ferred the Turanians in general to thisorigin, and others have derived theCircassians, inhabiting the mountainousdistrict between the Caspian and theBlack sea, from the Magogian stock. Concerning the Madai, who are record-ed as the third tribe of Japheth, there canbe little doubt that these were the ances-tors of the great race of Medes, whosecountry spread from the Upper Zagrostoward the east, as far as Hyrcania andthe desert of Aria. Subsequently, in thedevelopment of the Median race, the nation spread southward over the Irani-an plateau, and passed by conquest intoAssyria, and even to Babylonia. Butthe prehistoric tribes descended fromMadai were limited to the northern prov-inces east of the mountains. The fourth son of Japheth was Javan,easily identified with the Greek ancestral. Distribution ofthe Magog andthe Madai. OLD MEDIAN TYPES—THE SASSANIAN PRINCES (OF THE SCULPTURES).Drawn by H. Chapuis, from a photograph by Madame Dieulafoy. name Iaones, from whom, according tothe Hellenic tradition, the Ionians ofAsia Minor and the ^Egean Traces of the islands were descended, dispersion of theTraces of the Javanites Javailites-have been discovered among the inscrip-tions of Egypt; and the Greeks as a racewere called Javanas among the ancientHindus. The Arabic word for Greeksis Yunan, which is evidently of the sameetymology with Javan. In later timesthe Hellenic ethnographers were dis-posed to accept Iaones as the ancestor oftheir whole race, and to make Ionianand Greek equivalent terms. From the Javan, several ancestralstocks are said to have been derived. Thefirst son bore the name o
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