Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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^wv^W the nomadic nations of Northern Asiaare monosyllabic. They consisted origi-nally of words of a single syllable, andare never inflected. In order, however, to DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CLASSIFICATION. 423 include the great group called Turanian.The word is derived from tura, ahorseman, and has respect to the nation-al habit of life peculiar to the semibar-barous races ofNorthern AsiaIn general, theTuranian fam-ily, as deter-mined by thepeculiarities oflanguage, con-forms with tol-erable identityto the Altaiangroup of na-tions as deter-mined by his-torical relation-ships. 4. T/if Gan-owanian Races.—In addition tothe three majordivisions ofmankind thusdetermined bythe evidence of as indicating the most universal charac-teristic of the Indian races. They are,and have always been, the wearers ofthe bow. Just as the root ar has fur- anguage, as
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fourth divisionhas been sug-gested to in-clude the bar-barian races ofthe New World;and for thisbranch of man-kind the nameGano wanian hasbeen proposedby ProfessorLewis H. Mor-gan, of the United States. In the Seneca-Iroquois dialects the word gano-wano sig-nifies bow-and-arrow, and ProfessorMorgan has seized upon this expression GANOWANIAN TYPES—UCAYLI INDIANS.Drawn by P. Fritel. nished to Max Miiller and other Euro-pean scholars the hint for the ethnicname Aryan, meaning the races of theplow, just as tura, meaning a horseman, 424 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. has furnished the root of the word Tu-ranian, descriptive of the nomadic races„^ ^ of Asia, so the word Gan- The Gano-wan- ian, or bow-and- owauian may properly be arrow, races. , , ^ . , employed to designate theraces of the bow and arrow. Linguis-

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