A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 45

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

XLV THE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM It is worth while to note the extremely shrunken dimensions of the share of the world remaining under Aryan control in the seventh and eighth centuries. A thousand years before, the Aryan-speaking races ...Read Moretriumphant over all the civilized world west of China. Now the Mongol had thrust as far as Hungary, nothing of Asia remained under Aryan rule except the Byzantine dominions in Asia Minor, and all Africa was lost and nearly all Spain. The great Hellenic world had shrunken to a few possessions round the nucleus of the trading city of Constantinople, Read Less