Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-23
The Outline of History-By H. @. Wells
/. The Romance of Mother Earth

too severe for the free spreading of peoples,
extended from the north pole into Central
Europe and across Russia and Siberia to the
great tablelands of Central Asia. After the
last Glacial age, this cold north mitigated it's
seventies very slowly, and was for long with
out any other )ulation than the wandering
hunters who spread eastward and across
Boring Strait. North and Central Europe
and Asia did not become sufficiently temper
ate for agriculture until quite recent times,
that is, within the limit of 10000 or
possibly even $1,000 years, and dense forest
period interviewed between the age of the
hunter and the agricultural clearings.
This forest period was also very wet pc
riod. 1t has been called the Pluvial, or Lac
ustrine, age, the rain or pond period 1t has
to be remembered that the outlines of the
land Of the world have changed greatly even
in the last hundred centuries.
When Russia Was a Swamp
Across European Russia, from the Baltic to
the Caspin Sea, as the ice receded there GER
tainly spread much water and many impas
sable swamps; the Caspian Sea and the Sea
of Aral and parts of the Desert of Turkestan,
are the vestiges of great extent of sea that
reached far up to the Volga valley and sent
an en- westward to join the Black Sea.
Mo y tain barriers much higher than they are
now, and the artN Of the sea that is now the
region Of the Indus, completed the separation
of the early Nordic races from the Mongo-
racial differentiation of those groups pos
sible.
Again the blown-sand Desert of Sahara
1t is not a dried-dp sea, but a wind desert,
and was once fertile and rich in life-be-
coming more and more dry and sandy, cut
the Caucasians off from the sparse primitive
negro population in the central forest region
of Africa.
The Persian Gulf extended very far to the
north of it's present head, and combined with
thu Syrian desert to cut off the Semitic peo-
pies from the eastern areas, while on the
other hand the south Of Arabia, much more
fertile than it is today, may have reached
across what is now the Gulf Of Alden towards
Abyssinia and somaliland. The Mediter-
rean and Red Sea may even have been fertile
valleys containing string Of fresh-Water-
lakes during the Pluvial Age.
The Barrier of the HimaIyas
The Himalayas and the higher and vaster
massif of Central Asia and the northWard eX-
tension of the Bay of Bengal up to the pres
ent Gauges Valley divided off the Dravidians
from the Mongolians, the canoe was the chief
link between Dravidian and Southern Mon
gol, and the Cobb system Of seas and lakes
which presently became the Cobb desert, and
the great system of mountain chains which
follow one another across Asia from the cen
ter to the northeast, split the Monaghan races
into the Chinese and the Ural-Altaic Ian
guage groups.
Boring Strait, when this came into ex-
istence, before or after the Pluyial period,
isolated the Amerindians.
We are not suggesting here, be it noted,
that these ancient separations were absolute
separa tons, but that they were effectual
enough at least to prevent any great inter-
mixture of blood or any great intermixture Of
speech in those days of mans social begin
nings. There was, nevertheless, some amount
of meeting and exchange even then, some
drift Of knowledge that spread the crude pat
terms and use Of various implements, and the
seeds of a primitive agriculture about the
world.
(Copyright 1929