Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes; a Study in the Tendencies of Asiatic Mentality
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The chief feature in the history of Asiatic peoples in the Middle Ages is their phenomenal expansion. A glance at the historical atlas of the world from the time of Attila the Central Asian Hun's havoc on Europe (A.D. 442-47) down to the establishment of the Ottoman Islam Empire in the place of the Greek (Eastern or Byzantine) Empire would show that, during all this ]ieriod, not an inch of Asiatic soil was under foreign rule or even ' sphere of influence,' except certain parts of Asia Minor. Ra...ther, on the one hand, the amazingly rapid conquests of the followers of Mahomet carried the frontier of Asia to the Pyrenees mountains and converted the Mediterranean Sea almost into an Asiatic lake. The story of that Expansion of Asia is to be read best in the history of the Christian jihads or Holy Wars against Islam. These Crusades undertaken by Pan-European or Pan-Christian Alliances were but attempts at self-defence on the part of the Westerners against a wholesale Orientalisation. And, on the other hand, the avalanche of the Barbarians of Scythia kept the whole territory of the Slavs to the east of the Carpathian Mountains as a mere appendix of Asia.
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