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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... tribes, who subsisted mainly upon the milk and flesh of their animals. 14. CENTRAL ASIA, lying between the Altai on the north, and the Elburz, Hindu Kûsh, and Himala ́ya Mountains on the south, has little connection with ancient History ...
... tribes of Israel, and took tribute from the king of Judah. (2 Kings xv: 29; xvi: 7-9.) Shalmaneser IV conquered Phœnicia, but was defeated in a naval assault upon Tyre. His successor, Sargon, took Samaria, which had revolted, and ...
... tribe, and that a great part of his story is merely imaginary. 39. The true history of the Median kingdom dates from ... tribes which was never to be dissolved. The supremacy was soon gained by the latter nation. The double kingdom was ...
... tribes, which bore the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, the grandson of Abraham. The sons of Joseph, however, received each a portion and gave their names to the two tribes of Ephraim and Manas ́seh. The family of Jacob went into ...
... tribes—Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh—preferred the fertile pastures east of the Jordan; and on condition of aiding their brethren in the conquest of their more westerly territory, received their allotted portion there. 76 ...
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 | |