Master-clues in World-historyLongmans, Green and Company, 1914 - 331 стор. |
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Master Clues in World History Andrew Reid Cowan,Longmans Green and Co Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2019 |
Master-Clues in World-History (Classic Reprint) Andrew Reid Cowan Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2018 |
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advance Africa aggressiveness agriculture already America ancient ancient Egypt ancient Greece animal Asia Asiatic Athaulf barbarians barbarism became Carthage centre China climate commercial compared completely conquered conquest continent course defeated deserts despite east Egypt and Mesopotamia empire essentially ethnic Eurasia Europe European existence favoured feudalism force France geographical Germany Ghenghis Khan greater greatest Greece Greeks Holy Roman Empire human Iberian peninsula idea India influence invasions Italy kings land least less manifested maritime Mediterranean mercantilism Mesopotamia Mexico military Mongols mountains nations native nature never nomadism Norsemen numbers ocean Old World origin pastoralism pastoralist peninsula perhaps Persia Peru Phoenicians plains political population predatoriness probably progress races Red Indian remain republicanism rivers Roman Rome Russia Saracenic seems shepherd slavery social society soil Spain Spaniards steppes Tatar tended thing tillage tillage civilisation tillage cultures tion to-day tool-using trade tribes tropical Turks victory wealth
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Сторінка 249 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Сторінка 227 - If a man dares to improve the style of his hut, to make a larger doorway than is customary ; if he should wear a finer or different style of dress to that of his fellows, he is instantly fined...
Сторінка 250 - It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands,— Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands. Then comes a mightier...
Сторінка 94 - ... hopeless than what they found. The passage from full barbarism to order and civilisation cannot conceivably be made in one generation or one age. Athaulf, the able successor of Alaric, passed his competent judgment on the matter in words which outweigh all the rhetoric of modern romanticism : — " He was wont to say that his warmest wish had at first been to obliterate the Roman name, and to make one sole Gothic empire, so that all that which had been Romania should be called Gothia, and that...
Сторінка 10 - That which distinguishes man from the beast is drinking without being thirsty and making love at all seasons." Yet in another chapter the author speaks in extenso of a human pairing season, and in a long treatise he discusses what he calls the " Hypothesis of Promiscuity." From this chapter I will read a few extracts : — "In the...
Сторінка 156 - By 1300, the defensive had obtained an almost complete mastery over the offensive, so that famine was the only certain weapon in siegecraft.
Сторінка 47 - The population had perhaps almost nothing to fear from the nomad; less probably in the Nile Valley than in the Tigris-Euphrates system; causing Egypt perhaps to be won earlier than Mesopotamia. There is almost no nourishment for man in the unmitigated desert surrounding Egypt. The sea in ancient times was a sufficient barrier and it was only in Greek times that it was effectively penetrated.
Сторінка 205 - The failure of the ancient Egyptians to take the short step forward from river to marine navigation can undoubtedly be traced to the fact that the sour swamps, barren sand-dunes, and pestilential marshes on the seaward side of the Nile delta must have always been sparsely populated as they are to-day,f and that a broad stretch of sandy waste backed their Red sea littoral.
Сторінка 187 - The civilization of Russia, massive and monotonous as the steppes, might almost be said to be a reflection of the physical uniformity of the plains." 10 And along the same line Peattie states that "the men of Archangel and Astrakhan, the extremes of Russia, are more similar socially and racially than are the Teutons and Latins living on the two approaches to the Brenner Pass through the...
Сторінка 151 - It is at least not advisable to use blighted onions for sets for growing seed. The fact that onions through this section are grown, in nearly every case, directly from the seed and not from sets would seem to indicate that the disease must winter usually by means of the oospores. It is safe to say that by far the greatest number of infections are from these winter spores. This is supported by their very general and abundant production. They begin to appear in the tissues of the infected onions quite...