The Wanderings of Plants And Animals From Their First Home
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There they cultivated the land and loaded ships, and in a time of general barbarism, arts and polished manners flourished at the brilliant courts of the caliphs and their viceroys. Nay, the impulse to transplant the vegetation of Asia into Europe was deeper and of more extended influence than it ever was under the Romans, whose dominion had reached the heart of Asia too. Through the Arabs the Mediterranean countries saw Indian products alive and growing, of which the fag-end of antiquity had ba...rely heard, or which it had received as costly wares at the hands of commerce. It is true it was impos- sible to transplant the pepper shrub, and nothing was yet heard of coffee ; but the Silkworm was naturalized in Spain and Sicily, and Moorish silks from Palermo furnished splendid coronation- robes for the imperial Lord of Christendom ; Papyrus thickets rustled on the borders of still waters, and Cotton and the Sugar- cane tried to thrive in warm places on European soil — tlie last a circumstance of incalculable importance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There they cultivated the land and loaded ships, and in a time of general barbarism, arts and polished manners flourished at the brilliant courts of the caliphs and their viceroys. Nay, the impulse to transplant the vegetation of Asia into Europe was deeper and of more extended influence than it ever was under the Romans, whose dominion had reached the heart of Asia too. Through the Arabs the Mediterranean countries saw Indian products alive and growing, of which the fag-end of antiquity had ba...rely heard, or which it had received as costly wares at the hands of commerce. It is true it was impos- sible to transplant the pepper shrub, and nothing was yet heard of coffee ; but the Silkworm was naturalized in Spain and Sicily, and Moorish silks from Palermo furnished splendid coronation- robes for the imperial Lord of Christendom ; Papyrus thickets rustled on the borders of still waters, and Cotton and the Sugar- cane tried to thrive in warm places on European soil — tlie last a circumstance of incalculable importance.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Stallybrass, James Steven, 1826-1888 to read onlineMoreLess
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