Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young (1897) (14579364239)

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Title: Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Hazard, Blanche Evans Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919, ed

Subjects: Indians of North America

Publisher: New York, The Morse company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t there was an edgeor rim of land outside the surrounding waters,which was joined on all sides by the sky fittingover it like a big dome. Some men said that theearth was of a much more beautiful, perfect shape;it was not a plane, but a sphere. Then they -beganto think that if it were round a man could travelaround it as a fly can walk around an apple. Forcenturies these ideas were merely talked about.Then for several centuries more they were nearlyforgotten. They were written on rolls of parch-ment, which were the books of those days ; butthose books were hidden away and known only toa few great scholars. TRAVEL TO THE HOLY LAND. A custom had grown u)) among the Cliristiansof Europe of making pilgrimages to Jerusalem.Men and women wanted to visit the sacred spotswhere Christ had lived and died. They were oftenhindered and harmed by the Turks and Saracenswho lived in and about the Holy Land. Thesewere heathen, wliom the (Muistians of Europewished to conquer and convert. For this, large

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92 INDIANS AND PIONEERS. military expeditions, called crusades, were under-taken, as early as 1100, by tlie great warriors andhumble peasants of all parts of Europe. Thousandswent armed to the Holy Land to snatch the sacredplaces from the heathen Turks and Saracens. While tliere, the Europeans became used to theOriental luxuries which tliese people had gottenfrom the people living still further to the east. ORIENTAL LUXURIES. These Orientals had beautiful silks, linens, jew-els, ivories, fine spices, delicious dried fruits, andmany other luxuries that Europeans delighted in.Indeed, the people of the West liked these thingsso much that merchants soon began to send forthem. They sent out parties of traders in largecaravans, with camels and horses. They soonopened regular routes of travel for their tradefrom India and from China. In the early part ofthe fifteenth century these trade routes were closedby tlie Turks, who took possession of the countrythrough wliich the caravans passed, and

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