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The protection of a water frontier--Pile villages of ancienttimes--Modern pile dwellings--Their geographicdistribution--River-dwellers in old and popular lands--Man'sencroachment upon the sea by reclamation of land--The struggle with thewater--Mound villages in river flood-plains--Social and political gainby control of the water--A factor in early civilization of aridlands--The economy of the water--Fisheries--Factors in maritimeexpansion--Fisheries as nurseries of seamen--Anthropo-geographicimportance of navigation.
CHAPTER XI.
THE ANTHROPO-GEOGRAPHY OF RIVERS
Rivers as intermediaries between land and sea--Sea navigation mergesinto river navigation--Historical importance of seas and oceansinfluenced by their debouching streams--Lack of coast articulationssupplied by rivers--River highways as basis of commercialpreรซminence--Importance of rivers in large countries--Rivers as highwaysof expansion--Determinants of routes in arid or semi-aridlands--Increa
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Wilhelm Roscher, National-Oekonomik des Ackerbaues, p. 44. Stuttgart, 1888.
1072.A full discussion in Malthus, Principles of Population, Book I, chap. 7.
1073.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 133-144, 157-160. London, 1831. S.M. Zwemer, Arabia, The Cradle of Islam, 155-157. New York, 1900.
1074.Vambery, Reise in Mittelasien, pp. 285, 289-297. Leipzig, 1873.
1075.Alexis Krausse, Russia in Asia, pp. 127-129. New York, 1899.
1076.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, pp. 174-175. London, 1896-1898.
1077.Wallace, Russia, pp. 340-342. New York, 1904.
1078.L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, pp. 17, 63-66. London, 1905.
1079.Felix Dubois, Timbuctoo, pp. 256, 324-325. Translated from the French, New York, 1896.
1080.Heinrich Barth, Travels in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, pp. 287-288, 293, 305. New York, 1857.
1081.Felix Dubois, Timbuctoo, pp. 133-134, 203, 206-207, 229, 232, 239-245. New York, 1896.
1082.Boyd Alexander, From the Niger to the Nile, Vol. II, pp. 1-2, 6, 16-18, 80. London, 1907.
1083.Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman. Empire, Vol. V, p. 87. New York, 1858.
1084.Pliny, Historia Naturalis, V, 3.
1085.Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. II, p. 495. New York, 1858.
1086.Ellsworth Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, p. 340. Boston, 1907.
1087.Pallas, Travels in the Southern Provinces of Russia in 1793-1794, Vol. II, p. 4. London, 1812.
1088.Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 94, 256.
1089.Genesis, XIII, 7-8; XXI, 25-30; XXVI, 15-22.
1090.Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology, Vol. I, p. 545. New York, 1887.
1091.Thucydides, Book II, 96.
1092.Herodotus, IV, 46.
1093.Meredith Townsend, Asia and Europe, Chapter on Arab Courage. New York, 1904.
1094.Wilhelm Roscher, National-Oekonomik des Ackerbaues, p. 44. Stuttgart, 1888.
1095.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 35-36. London, 1831.
1096.John de Plano Carpini, Journey to the Northeast, pp. 114-117, 120-125. Hakluyt Society, London, 1904.
1097.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. I, p. 28. London, 1896-1898.
1098.J.H. Speke, Discovery of the Source of the Nile, pp. 241-244. New York, 1868.
1099.Journey of William de Rubruquis, pp. 18-27, Hakluyt Society, London, 1900.
1100.Jerome Dowd, The Negro Races, Vol. I, pp. 225-232. New York, 1907.
1101.Sir Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, pp. 85-98. London, 1904.
1102.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. I, p. 170. London, 1896-1898.
1103.Heinrich Barth, Travels in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, pp. 148, 152, 204, 210, 303. New York, 1857.
1104.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 115-119, 284-286, 296-300. London, 1831.
1105.Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. V, pp. 85-87. New York, 1857.
1106.Jerome Dowd, The Negro Races, Vol. I, pp. 234-235. New York,1907.
1107.Vambery, Reise in Mittel Asien, pp. 288-290. Leipzig, 1873.
1108.James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa, pp. 108, 128, 129, 155, 199, 452-453. New York, 1897.
1109.For vivid description of desert defensive warfare, see Gustav Frensen, Peter Moore's Journey to Southwest Africa. Translated from the German, 1908. Based upon interviews with hundreds of returning German soldiers from the Damara campaign.
1110.H.B. Mill, International Geography, p. 454. New York, 1902.
1111.Henry Norman, All the Russias, p. 273. New York, 1902.
1112.L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, pp. 54-56. London, 1905.
1113.Ibid., pp. 181-164.
1114.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, p. 177. London, 1896-1898.
1115.Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars, Vol. I, pp. 29-30. New York, 1893.
1116.Pallas, Travels through the Southern Provinces of Russia, Vol. I, pp. 532-533. London, 1812.
1117.Sir S.W. Baker, Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, p. 88. Hartford, 1868.
1118.David Livingstone, Missionary Travels, pp. 53-56, 169. New York, 1858.
1119.Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, Vol. I, pp. 96, 136, 359, New York and London, 1903. Ellsworth Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, pp. 193, 202, 212, 213. Boston, 1907.
1120.Sir Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, pp. 103, 104, 107, 112-116, 120, 125-128, 137, 138, 143. London, 1904.
1121.S.W. Zwemer, Arabia the Cradle of Islam, pp. 147, 151. New York, 1900. D.G. Hogarth, The Nearer East, pp. 185, 195. 265. London, 1902.
1122.Nachtigal, Sahara und Sudan, Vol. I, pp. 214-218, 267-269. Berlin, 1879.
1123.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, p. 168. London, 1896-1898.
1124.H.R. Mill, International Geography, pp. 906, 914. New York, 1902.
1125.H. Barth, Travels in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, pp. 152, 207, 210, 211. New York, 1857.
1126.Ibid., 41-44, 52, 61-64, 67, 76, 93, 95, 99, 103, 105.
1127.L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, p. 174. London, 1905.
1128.Sir Thomas Holdich, India, pp. 91-93. London, 1905.
1129.M.A. Stein, The Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, pp. 275-324, 354-408. London, 1903.
1130.H. Barth, Travels in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, chap. III. New York, 1857.
1131.Ellsworth Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, pp. 160-190, 209, 304, 309-310, 315, 367. Boston, 1907.
1132.J.L, Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 57-64, 238-242. London, 1831.
1133.E. Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, pp. 137-138. Boston, 1907.
1134.John de Plano Carpini, Journey to the Northeast, pp. 109-111, 120. Hakluyt Society, London, 1904. Journey of William de Rubruquis, pp. 191-193, 203, 224. Hakluyt Society, London, 1903.
1135.W.W. Rockhill, The Land of the Lamas, p. 80. New York, 1891.
1136.Vambery, Reise in Mittel Asien, p. 295. Leipzig, 1873.
1137.Nachtigal, Sahara und Sudan, Vol. I, pp. 257, 268. Berlin, 1879.
1138.E. Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, p. 74. Boston, 1907.
1139.L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, pp. 198-201. London, 1905.
1140.D. Livingstone, Travels and Researches in South Africa, p. 55. New York, 1859.
1141.W. Roscher, Grundlagen der Nationalรถkonomik, Book VI, chap. II, p. 244. Stuttgart, 1886.
1142.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, p. 170. London, 1896-98.
1143.W.W. Rockhill, Land of the Lamas, p. 80. New York, 1891.
1144.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 106, 187. London, 1831. S.M. Zwemer, Arabia the Cradle of Islam, pp. 162, 268. New York, 1900.
1145.Westermarck, History of Human Marriage, p. 429, notes 2 and 5, p. 440, note 2, p. 507. London, 1891.
1146.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 47, 48, 70, 71, 191-192, 239. London, 1831.
1147.S.M. Zwemer, Arabia the Cradle of Islam, p. 128. New York, 1900.
1148.Ezekiel, Chap. XXVII, 21.
1149.For economic principle, see W. Roscher, Handel und Gewerbefleiss, pp. 141-147. Stuttgart, 1899.
1150.Genesis, Chap. XXXVII, 25-28, 36.
1151.W. Roscher, National-Oekonomik des Ackerbaues, p. 39, Note 11. Stuttgart, 1888.
1152.S.P. Scott, History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Vol. III, p. 616. Philadelphia, 1904.
1153.Felix Dubois, Timbuctoo, pp. 251-252. New York, 1896.
1154.Ibid., pp. 257-264.
1155.S.M. Zwemer, Arabia the Cradle of Islam, p. 151. New York, 1900.
1156.George Adam Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land, pp. 182-184. New York, 1897.
1157.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, p. 65. London, 1831.
1158.L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, pp. 130-134. London, 1903.
1159.F.R. Martin, A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800, pp. 9, 29, 69 et seq., 101, 121. Vienna, 1908. G. LeStrange, Land of the Eastern Caliphates, pp. 37, 293-294, 353, 363, 471. Cambridge, 1905.
1160.J.K. Mumford, Oriental Rugs, pp. 23-40, 100-111. New York, 1895.
1161.D.G. Hogarth, The Nearer East, pp. 197-198. London, 1902.
1162.J.K. Mumford, Oriental Rugs, p. 61. New York, 1895.
1163.J. Ferguson, History of Architecture, Vol. II, pp. 277-278, 499, 500. New York. J. Ferguson, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, Vol. II, pp. 210-214. New York, 1891.
1164.Wilhelm Bode, Vorderasiatische Knรผpfteppiche, pp. 3-4. Leipzig.
1165.Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. V, p. 78. New York, 1858.
1166.Sir S.W. Baker, Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, pp. 148-152. Hartford, 1868.
1167.Strabo, Book VII, chap. III, 7, 17; chap. IV, 6. Book XI, chap. II, 1, 2, 3.
1168.J. Wappaรผs, Handbuch der Geographie und Statistik des chemaligen spanischen Mittel- und Sud-Amerika, p. 1019. Leipzig, 1863-1870.
1169.Sir F. Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, pp. 72, 74. London, 1904. Alfred Kirchoff, Man and Earth, pp. 58-71. London.
1170.J.L. Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Vol. I, pp. 374-377. London, 1831. L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, pp. 98-100. London, 1905.
1171.Exodus, Chap. XXII, 1-4, 23.
1172.John de Plano Carpini, Journey to the Northeast in 1246, pp. 110, 111, 113. Hakluyt Society, London, 1904.
1173.Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. V, p. 89. New York, 1858. H. Barth, Travels in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, p. 144. New York, 1857.
1174.E. Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, pp. 121-123. Boston, 1907.
1175.James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa, p. 422. New York, 1897.
1176.Deuteronomy, VII, 1-3.
1177.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, p. 184. London, 1896-1898.
1178.Boyd Alexander, From the Niger to the Nile, Vol. I, pp. 190-197. London, 1907.
1179.H. Barth, Travels in North and Central Africa, Vol. I, pp. 202, 277-281. New York, 1857.
1180.Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. III, p. 173. London, 1896-1898.
1181.Ibid., Vol. III, Chapter on Islam, pp. 195-204.
1182.George Adam Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land, pp. 28-30. New York, 1897. L. March Phillipps, In the Desert, pp. 101-105. London, 1905.
1183.E.A. Freeman, Historical Geography of Europe, pp. 114-116. London, 1882.
1184.George Adam Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land, pp. 88-90. New York, 1897.
1185.Jeremiah, Chap. XXXV, 6-14.
The important characteristic of plains is their power to facilitate every phase of historical movement; that of mountains is their power to retard, arrest, or deflect it. Man, as part of the mobile envelope of the earth, like air and water feels always the pull of gravity. From this he can never fully emancipate himself. By an output of energy he may climb the steepest slope, but with every upward step the ascent becomes more difficult, owing to the diminution of warmth and air and the increasing tax upon the heart.1186 Maintenance of life in high altitudes is always a struggle. The decrease of food resources from lower to higher levels makes the passage of a mountain system an ordeal for every migrating people or
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