World History - 02

HUMAN RACES OF THE WORLD

• People living in Africa, Arabia, India, Malaysia, Australia and Tansania belonged to the Negroid Race. 
• ‘Pigmies’ seen in Africa, South East Asia and Indonesia is a subgroup of the Negroids.
• Majority of modern Human race belonged to the Mongloid race.
• People living in Japan, China, Indonesia, Formosa Tibet etc belonged to the Mongloid race.
• People lived in Ancient Egypt belonged to the Hemitic race.
• Ancient Babilonians, Hebrews, Phoenesians, Arabs etc belonged to the Semitic race.
• Semitic, Hemitic and Indo-Europeans are the subgroups of the Caucasoid race.

LANGUAGES AND WRITING

• Man began to speak meaningfully during the Neolithic Period.
• English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Persian, Sanskrit and American languages belonged to the Indo-European or Aryan language group.
• Hebrew, Arabic, Abyssenian early Assirian and Phoenesian languages belonged to the Semitic  group of languages. 
• Languages spoken by the people lived around Mediterranean sea were of the Hemitic group.
• Lapis, Finnish, Magyar,Tartar, Manchu, Mongol etc, belonged to the Turanean group of languages.
• Egyptians were the first to use Phonetic writing.
• The early writing of the Egyptians were known as Hieroglyphics.
• Phoeniseans were considered as the originators of the modern pattern of writing.

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