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History of the German People From the First Authentic Annals to the Present Time
History of the German People From the First Authentic Annals to the Present Time Author:Charles Francis Horne General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: International Historical Society Subjects: Germany History / Europe / Germany Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this... more » book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II EARLY HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE THE Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic race, which term denotes the common origin and closer relationship of the following peoples: Aryans (Hindoos and Persians), Armenians, Thra- cians, Illyrians, Greeks, Italic tribes, Celts, Germans, Slavs who include the Lithuanians. The original home of the Indo-Germanic race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains of Central Asia. The country seems to have been neither too cold nor too warm. They had snow as all the Indo-Germans have the same word for " to snow." There were no palm trees, no camels, no lions, yet there were bears, wolves and trees which we now find in the North Temperate Zone. The latest Indo-Germanic home was probably the South Russian steppes. The Aryans went westward to the Indian Ocean and occupied as Hindoos the northern parts of India, and as Iranians the territory adjacent to the Persian Gulf. Further west lived the Armenians, the closest neighbors of the Slavs. The entire eastand north of Asia were left to others. The Greeks moved toward the Egean Sea, and the Italic Tribes occupied the center of the territory adjoining the Mediterranean. They were closely followed by the Thracians and Illyrians, and settled in the Balkans and the north of the Apennine Peninsula. The Albanians are believed to be their descendants. The Celts located in parts of Upper Italy, and as early as the third century B. c. passed on to Asia Minor. The majority, however, went to Fra...« less