It is but a thing of yesterday. During the thousand years which went before the opening of this era of European supremacy, the attitude of Asia and Africa, of Hun and Mongol, Turk and Tartar, Arab and Moor, had on the whole been that of successful aggression... History as literature and other essays - Page 77by Theodore Roosevelt - 1913 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1910 - 1076 pages
...Moor, had on the whole been that of successful aggression against Europe. More than a century passed after the voyages of Columbus before the mastery in...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt, Lawrence Fraser Abbott - Political science - 1910 - 312 pages
...tongue. The phenomena of national growth and decay, both of those which can and those which cannot be explained, have been peculiarly in evidence during...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Biology - 1910 - 56 pages
...of tongue. The phenomena of national growth and decay, both those which can and those which cannot be explained, have been peculiarly in evidence during...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - Biology - 1910 - 56 pages
...Arab and \ Biological Analogies in History I \ Moor, had on the whole been that of successful ag^ sion against Europe. More than a century went by after...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by... | |
| United States - 1910 - 1090 pages
...aggression against Europe. More than a century passed after the voyages of Columbus before the master)- in war began to pass from the Asiatic to the European....The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined by... | |
| 1910 - 444 pages
...the long run to vanish. But very much of it represents not a merely political but an ethnic conquest. During this period substantially all of the world...stock, first one and then another has taken the lead. "Comparison is often made between the empire of Britain and the empire of Rome. When judged relatively... | |
| Zoology - 1910 - 56 pages
...The first exception of any consequence is the wonderful rise of Japan within the last generation—a phenomenon unexampled in history; for both in blood...The movement began with Spain and Portugal. Their % flowering time was as brief as it was wonderful'. The gorgeous pages of their annals are illumined... | |
| Michael Adas - History - 2009 - 566 pages
...averred that by combining what was "strongest in [their] ancient character and traditions," they had "assimilated with curious completeness most of the...that have given power and leadership to the West," and thereby positioned Japan to "take its place as a great civilized power of a formidable type."71... | |
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