A Manual of Ancient HistoryWilson, Hinkle, 1872 - 376 pages |
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... territory between the Zagros Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea . The region between the two great rivers and north of Babylonia was called by the Greeks Mesopotamia . It differed from the more southerly province in being richly wooded ...
... territory between the Zagros Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea . The region between the two great rivers and north of Babylonia was called by the Greeks Mesopotamia . It differed from the more southerly province in being richly wooded ...
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... territory . B. C. 1270 . 29. SECOND PERIOD , B. C. 1250-745 . About the middle of the thir teenth century B. C. , Tiglathi - nin conquered Babylon . A hundred and twenty years later , a still greater monarch , Tiglath - pileser I ...
... territory . B. C. 1270 . 29. SECOND PERIOD , B. C. 1250-745 . About the middle of the thir teenth century B. C. , Tiglathi - nin conquered Babylon . A hundred and twenty years later , a still greater monarch , Tiglath - pileser I ...
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... territories . The Lower Empire is established by Tiglath - pileser II , whose dominion reaches the Mediterranean . Sargon records many conquests in his palace at Khorsabad . Sennacherib recaptures Babylon and gains victories over Egypt ...
... territories . The Lower Empire is established by Tiglath - pileser II , whose dominion reaches the Mediterranean . Sargon records many conquests in his palace at Khorsabad . Sennacherib recaptures Babylon and gains victories over Egypt ...
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... territories with his ally , and raised his own dominion to a high degree of wealth . His son Astyages reigned peacefully thirty - five years . Babylon , under Nabonassar , became independent of Assyria , B. C. 747. Mero- dach - baladan ...
... territories with his ally , and raised his own dominion to a high degree of wealth . His son Astyages reigned peacefully thirty - five years . Babylon , under Nabonassar , became independent of Assyria , B. C. 747. Mero- dach - baladan ...
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... territory . They were a brave but rather brutal race , chiefly occupied with agriculture , and especially the raising of the vine . 56. The Phrygians came from the mountains of Armenia , whence they brought a tradition of the Flood ...
... territory . They were a brave but rather brutal race , chiefly occupied with agriculture , and especially the raising of the vine . 56. The Phrygians came from the mountains of Armenia , whence they brought a tradition of the Flood ...
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Page 27 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 27 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment : and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Page 27 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 27 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 44 - The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Page 27 - ... but When his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven...
Page 40 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 27 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page vii - Lectures on the History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire.
Page 87 - Says Darius the king : — There was not a man, neither Persian, nor Median, nor any one of our family, who would dispossess of the empire that Gomates the Magian.