Identifier: colliersnewencyc01newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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al Asia decayed underthe raids of Mongolian tribes; the Romanempire was absorbed by the East, and fellinto decay at the very confines of Asia,on the shores of the Bosphorus; the Ar-sacides and Sassanides of Persia re-pulsed the Roman aggression and con-quered Roman provinces, while the greatmigrations of the first centuries of ourera were due to mass movements fromAsia into Europe. Ural-Altaians mi-grated to the Urals and thence to Hun-gary. Other Turanians, the Mervs, theAlans, the Avars, penetrated into Eu-rope from the S. E. Mongols abandonedplateaus, and invaded the Russian plains;the Arabs, following the S. coast of theMediterranean, invaded Spain; and theempire of the Osmanlis arose on theruins of the eastern Roman empire. Bythese invasions, Asia arrested the freedevelopment of Europe, and compelledthe Germanic, Gallic, and Slavonic fed-erations to gather into powerful statesof the Roman monarchical type. Portuguese ships, rounding the Cspe,founded the first European colonies in
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ASIA 299 ASIA MINOB India. They were soon followed by theSpaniards, the Dutch, the French, theDanes, and the British, all endeavoringto seize the richest colonies in Asia. Rus-sia, in the course of a few centuries, con-quered and colonized the northwesternslopes of the high plateau and reachedthe Pacific. Great Britain establishedherself in India, and took possession ofthe whole of the peninsula, and extendedher power over the westei-n parts of theIndo-Chinese Peninsula. The Portugueseretain in India only Diu, Daman, andGoa; and the French keep Chanderna-gore, Yanaon, Pondicherry, Charical andMahe. The next colonial power in Asiais the Dutch, who have under their do-minion most of Borneo, Sumatra, Java,Celebes, the Moluccas and the smallSunda Islands. British and French in-terests are rivals in the Indo-ChinesePeninsula, and, while Burma has be-come English, the annexation by Franceof Tonkin and of Siamese territory E. ofthe Mekhong has consolidated Frenchpower in Indo-China. The join

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