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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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d the island- of the .Mediterranean.He attacked the exposed di>ti-ii-t- of l.otii theEastern and the We-tern Knipiie. He enteredinto alliances with tie- ( )-ti-o;joili-, the ^i-i-goths, and finally with the linn-; -,, thatwhat remained of the Roman doniinion- be^auto be ))ressed bet\veen two weights ot liai litir-ism, the one bearing from the north and theother from the south. The time had now come for the feroei.msHuns, who hail accumulated in the trans-Danubian provin.-e-. to lay their terrible haii.lson the remnants of civilization. Quite unlikethe half-civilized Goths and mild-manneredVandals were these wild Asiatics, who by theimpact of their honles had projected thecothictribes into the Empire. This tiist movementhad been accomplished under their king llv-GlL.\s, who was contemporary with Honorius.After the death of the kiiiL^ of the Huns hispower de-ci-nded to hi- two -ons, Attii.a andBr,EI.A. The first was destined so.m to aciiieve UyiVERSAL UISTOliY. — THK AXCIEST WORLD.
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ROME.—COXSTAXTIXK AXD JUS SLXVES: bariaii warridr nF all time. He estalili^lihis cDurt in a stockade mi the river Thei.->,Pannonia. whirii now heeaine Huiiuarv. Hithe sava.iie m.march ilelighted in cultivatithe arts of ferocity. He auuouiiii-il his pipose to be the destroyer of the natinns, a,<rladly accepted the title of the ■Scuur-eGod He first fell upou the outlvinu- pninces of Theodo^ius Heo\pithu\^ the inn •.1 the i;i Orleai Uualil but w: l.V -n.,t aer,v-i,id , r.aitcd in a -reatif continued his ret: liefore him. At^s was arrrsted. t.Mapli. followe y thv Imp.rial army, sw,,lleuIS ,.f auxiliaries, and wasKittle at (■lIAI.oxs. He then■at out of Gaul.The king of the Huus now became ambi-tious of an Impenal niaiuage lu V D 4 )2h d, mnuh.! th, huid ot H.moiii -Mei <.f

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