Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
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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mises is to trace out thepossible, even probable, approximation ofthe Polynesian and Asiatic Mongoloids 514 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. to the western parts of the two Ameri-cas. It is certainly not impossible that therace of man may have thus made its ap-pearance in the New World, and mayhave been disseminated from ethnicstocks which were derived from thenortheasternmost parts of Asia and theislands of the South Pacific. The im-mediate task before us is to resume theconsideration of the migratory lines bywhich the Brown races were dispersedthrough the larger parts of Asia. dispersed, and where they have sincedeveloped into the type of Chinese prop-er. All the races south of the Hoang-Hoand north of the Yang-tse-Kiang areof this common stock, which is one ofthe most distinct and persistent types ofmankind. The East Mongols, as distinguishedfrom the Chinese and the Malayo-Chi-nese, flowed from a branch of the AsiaticMongoloid family known as the North-east division. Its course from Afghan-
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ROUTE OF THE MONGOLIAN DISTRIBUTION.—Thian-Shan Mountains.—Drawn by Riou. We have now followed the lines ofdistribution from Thibet, in the south-eastward direction, to theOutbranching of the Asiatic Annamese and the vSiamese Mongoloids. . , t» ^ • peninsulas. Returning tothe point of departure we find from thevalley of the Lan-Thsang a full stream ofmigration, tending directly toward theeast and into the heart of the Chineseempire. From the head-waters of theLan-Thsang to those of the Yang-tse themigratory movement carried the trueMongolians into the valley of the greatcentral river of China, where they were istan was through Eastern Turkistan andinto that part of China which is knowngeographically as Mongolia. This coun-try occupies the great re- J L 0 Distribution of gion between the Amoor the Northeast-and the Hoang-Ho, with theexception of the eastern part, next toCorea and the sea of Japan, which iscalled Manchuria. The people knownas Manchus are also descendants of theno

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