The Red Man's Continent: a Chronicle of Aboriginal America
The Red Man's Continent: a Chronicle of Aboriginal America
Huntington Ellsworth
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Underneath it is a map of the distribution of civilizationon the basis of the opinion of fifty authorities in fifteen differentcountries. The similarity of the two maps is so striking that there canbe little question that today the distribution of civilization agreesclosely with the distribution of climatic energy. When Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, and Rome were at the height of their power this agreement waspresumably the same, for the storm belt which now gives variabilityand hence energy to the... thickly shaded regions in our two maps thenapparently lay farther south. It is generally considered that no racehas been more closely dependent upon physical environment than were theIndians. Why, then, did the energizing effect of climate apparently haveless effect upon them than upon the other great races? Why were notthe most advanced Indian tribes found in the same places where whitecivilization is today most advanced? Climatic changes might in partaccount for the difference, but, although such changes apparentlytook place on a large scale in earlier times, there is no evidence ofanything except minor fluctuations since the days of the first whitesettlements.
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