mid-asian

Updated: July 19, 2025

Further, the Japanese had been taught by experience the immense difficulties of conducting oversea campaigns, and if they understood anything about the Mongols, it should have been the essentially non-maritime character of the mid-Asian conquerors. By Kublai himself that defect was well appreciated.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

The position of the Japanese woman even of to-day, despite that eagerness once shown to educate her an eagerness which soon cooled in the government schools, but which keeps an even pulse in the Christian home and college is still relatively one of degradation as compared with that of her sister in Christendom. For this, the mid-Asian religion is not wholly responsible, yet it is largely so.

William Elliot Griffis - The Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji

At these let us glance. The age of the Vedas extends from the year 2000 to 1400 B.C., and the history of this early India is wonderfully like that of America. During this era, the Hindus, one of the seven Aryan tribes of which the Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sclav and Teutonic form the other six, descending from the mid-Asian plateau, settled the Punjab in Northwest India.

William Elliot Griffis - The Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji