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Alexander ancient world Aramean architecture army Asia Minor Assyrian Athenian Athens Augustus Babylon Babylonian barbarians battle beautiful became began buildings built Caesar called Carthage Carthaginian century B.C. citizen civilization consul Cretan cuneiform Darius desert earliest early East eastern Mediterranean Egean Egypt Egyptian emperor Etruscan Europe excavated Fertile Crescent finally fleet gained Gaul gods Greece Greek Greek cities Hannibal headpiece Hebrews Hellenistic Hittite hundred Indo-European influence island Italy king land Late Stone Age Latin leaders leadership learned Mediterranean Mediterranean world metal monuments Nile noble nomads northern Orient painted palace Palestine Pericles Persian Persian Empire Phoenician Pompey possessed provinces Pyramid Age river Roman Empire Roman Senate Rome ruler sculpture Section Semitic Senate ships shows Sicily side Sparta struggle Sumerian surviving temple Thebes thousand tomb town tribes vast walls West western writing
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Page 79 - Oryx nome, as far as its southern and northern boundary, preserving its people alive and furnishing its food, so that there was none hungry therein. I gave to the widow as (to) her who had a husband; I did not exalt the great above the small in all that I gave. Then came great Niles, possessors of grain and all things, (but) I did not collect the arrears of the field.
Page 665 - This people has already made its way into every city, and it is not easy to find any place in the habitable world which has not received this nation and in which it has not made its power felt
Page 217 - By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth : ' Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 257 - Driving their herds before them, with their families in rough carts drawn by horses, the rude Greek tribesmen must have looked out upon the fair pastures of Thessaly, the snowy summit of Olympus, and the blue waters of the jEgean not long after 2000 B.
Page 685 - Even the citizen's wages and the prices of the goods he bought or sold were as far as possible fixed for him by the State. The emperor's innumerable officials kept an eye upon even the humblest citizen. They watched the grain dealers, butchers, and bakers, and saw to it that they properly supplied the public and never deserted their occupation. In some cases the State even forced the son to follow the profession of his father.
Page 49 - The invention of writing and of a convenient system of records on paper has had a greater influence in uplifting the human race than any other intellectual achievement in the career of man. It was more important than all the battles ever fought...
Page 133 - The secretary draws a reed stylus from a leather holder at his girdle, and quickly covers the small clay tablet with its lines of wedge groups. The writer then sprinkles over the soft wet tablet a handful of dry powdered clay. This is to prevent the clay envelope, which he now deftly wraps about the letter, from adhering to the written surface. On this soft clay envelope he writes the address and sends the letter out to be put into the furnace and baked.
Page 227 - Europe or neighboring Asia. Thus at the dawn of history, barbarian Europe looked across the Mediterranean to the great civilization of the Nile, as our own North American Indians fixed their wondering eyes on the first Europeans who landed in America, and listened to like strange tales of great and distant peoples.
Page 164 - Nineveh he planted strange trees and plants from all quarters of his great empire. Among them were cotton trees, of which he says, " The trees that bore wool they clipped and they carded it for garments." These cotton trees came from India. We thus see appearing for the first time in the ancient world the cotton which now furnishes so large a part of our own national wealth.
Page 636 - They altered the narrow city-\aw of Rome so that it might meet the needs of the whole Empire. In spirit these laws were fair, just, and humane, and did much to unify the peoples of the Mediterranean world into a single nation: for...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History and the Career of Early Man Page 1 of Outlines of European history |
| Author | James Henry Breasted |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1916 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 8, 2008 |
| Length | 742 pages |
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