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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 (1897) (14803490673)

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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 (1897) (14803490673)

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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University



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ple,reckoning- by antiquityof descent, are discov-erable along the far-thest horizon of his-tory on the plateau ofancient Iran. Thecountry corresponds in general withmodern Persia. It must be borne inmind that the political boundaries ofantiquity were not generally so defi-nitely drawn as in the modern world.The Semitic races in Western Asia andthe Greeks in Eastern Europe were thefirst to set up termini, and thus to estab- lish definitely the metes and bounds ofa political state. The impulse which carried the OldIranians southward from the primitiveAryan nidus in the coun- J The inquiry may try about the lower Cas- begin with the , ., i * j Iranians. pian has already been de-scribed. We are now to look withsome care at the people of the Iranicfamily, and to note their ethnic peculiar-ities. It will not be forgotten that atthe time of their first dispersion in Iranthey were still, as a race, fundamentallyidentical in character with the othereastern branch of our ancestral kindred. 577
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THE IRANIANS.—ELEMENTARY CHARACTER. 579 which was carried into the Punjab andthence down the river valleys of India. Ancient Iran invited to the nomadiclife. This was the first impress whichthe environment made upon the primi-piateau of Iran tive tribes of our race. AtinaVns2p°aJd0rSe the time of their coming-outdoor life. into these open highlandregions they had already domesticatedthe horse and several other species ofanimals. But the horse was the specialcompanion ofthe Iranian onhis excursions,and it is worthyof note thatthrough allages of historythe pre emi -nence of thePersian steedhas been main-tain e d . Ahousehold hadbeen organizedafter the man-ner which hasever since pre-vailed among1the Aryanraces. The re-lations of fa-therhood and motherhood, of sonshipand daughtership, had been established,and the home of the group was a tentat first, and a more permanent abodeafterwards. Not only were the common animalsknown to the primitive Iranians, butalso the common cereals and ve

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