A Manual of Ancient History (Illustrations)Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., 2000 - 275 pages Several causes have lately augmented both the means and the motives for a more thorough study of History. Modern criticism, no longer accepting primitive traditions, venal eulogiums, partisan pamphlets, and highly wrought romances as equal and trustworthy evidence, merely because of their age, is teaching us to sift the testimony of ancient authors, to ascertain the sources and relative value of their information, and to discern those special aims which may determine the light in which their works should be viewed. The geographical surveys of recent travelers have thrown a flood of new light upon ancient events; and, above all, the inscriptions discovered and deciphered within half a century, have set before us the great actors of old times, speaking in their own persons from the walls of palaces and tombs. |
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... Eastern Empires (separate). History of Greece (separate). History of Rome (separate). Mediæval and Modern History. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by WILSON, HINKLE & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of ...
... East, 348; of Constantine alone, and the Reörganization of the Empire, 349; of Constantine II., Constans, and ... Eastern and Western Empires. Reigns, in the West, of Honorius, 356; of Valentinian III., 358; of Maximus, 359; of Avitus ...
... eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean, and became the founders of the Egyptian Empire. The children of JAPHETH constituted the Indo-Germanic, or Aryan race, which was divided into two great branches. One, moving eastward ...
... east, and Bac ́tria to the south of that province. The modern Sam ́arcand is Maracan ́da, the ancient capital of Sogdiana. Bactra, now Balkh, was probably the first great city of the Aryan race. 15. SOUTHERN ASIA may be divided into eastern ...
... east of the Euxine, upon one of the great highways of ancient traffic. It was celebrated, in very early times, for its trade in linen. Media was a mountainous region, extending from the Araxes to the Caspian Gates. Persia lay between ...
Table des matières
BOOK III Grecian States and Colonies from their Earliest Period to the Accession of Alexander the Great | |
BOOK IV History of the Macedonian Empire and the Kingdoms formed from it until their Conquest by the Romans | |
BOOK V History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire A D 476 | |
LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED | |
FOOTNOTES | |
INDEX | |