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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... revolt of the Phœnician cities, and extorted tribute from most of the kings in Syria. He gained a great battle at El ́tekeh, in Palestine, against the kings of Egypt and Ethiopia, and captured all the “fenced cities of Judah.” (2 Kings ...
... revolt of Media on the north, and Babylonia on the south. Nabopolassar, the Babylonian, had been general of the armies of Saracus; but finding himself stronger than his master, he made an alliance with Cyax ́ares, king of the Medes, in ...
... revolt of Media and Babylonia. MEDIAN MONARCHY. 37. Little is known of the Medes before the invasion of their country by Shalmaneser II, B. C. 830, and its partial conquest by Sargon,[8] in 710. They had some importance, however, in the ...
... revolt. He was carried captive to Babylon, where he had leisure to reflect upon his sins and their punishment. On his return to Jerusalem, he confessed and forsook his errors, and wrought a religious reformation in his kingdom. 109. His ...
... revolt of Hoshea against Assyria led to the capture of Samaria, and the captivity of both king and people. The kingdom of Judah, with a smaller territory, had a people more united in faith and loyalty, and was ruled four hundred years ...
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 | |