Ancient States and Empires

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Author

Lord, John, 1810-1894

Title

Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

History, Ancient

Category

Text

eBook-No.

27114

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27114

Release Date

November 1, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Contents — PREFACE. — BOOK I. — ANCIENT ORIENTAL NATIONS.
2. 2.THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.
3. 3.POSTDILUVIAN HISTORY TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM.—THE PATRIARCHAL CONSTITUTION, AND THE DIVISION OF NATIONS.
4. 4.THE HEBREW RACE FROM ABRAHAM TO THE SALE OF JOSEPH.
5. 5.EGYPT AND THE PHARAOHS.
6. 6.THE JEWS UNTIL THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN.
7. 7.THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF DAVID.
8. 8.THE JEWISH MONARCHY.
9. 9.THE OLD CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN MONARCHIES.
10. 10.THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
11. 11.ASIA MINOR AND PHŒNICIA.
12. 12.JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.—THE HIGH PRIESTS AND THE ASMONEAN AND IDUMEAN KINGS.
13. 13.THE ROMAN GOVERNORS. — BOOK II. — THE GRECIAN STATES.
14. 14.THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ITS EARLY INHABITANTS.
15. 15.THE LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE.
16. 16.THE GRECIAN STATES AND COLONIES TO THE PERSIAN WARS.
17. 17.GRECIAN CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS.
18. 18.THE PERSIAN WAR.
19. 19.THE AGE OF PERICLES.
20. 20.THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
21. 21.MARCH OF CYRUS AND RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
22. 22.THE LACEDÆMONIAN EMPIRE.
23. 23.THE REPUBLIC OF THEBES.
24. 24.DIONYSIUS AND SICILY.
25. 25.PHILIP OF MACEDON.
26. 26.ALEXANDER THE GREAT. — BOOK III. — THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
27. 27.ROME IN ITS INFANCY, UNDER KINGS.
28. 28.THE ROMAN REPUBLIC TILL THE INVASION OF THE GAULS.
29. 29.THE CONQUEST OF ITALY.
30. 30.THE FIRST PUNIC WAR.
31. 31.THE SECOND PUNIC OR HANNIBALIC WAR.
32. 32.THE MACEDONIAN AND ASIATIC WARS.
33. 33.THE THIRD PUNIC WAR.
34. 34.ROMAN CONQUESTS FROM THE FALL OF CARTHAGE TO THE TIMES OF THE GRACCHI.
35. 35.ROMAN CIVILIZATION AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD PUNIC WAR, AND THE FALL OF GREECE.
36. 36.THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI.
37. 37.THE WARS WITH JUGURTHA AND THE CIMBRI.—MARIUS.
38. 38.THE REVOLT OF ITALY, AND THE SOCIAL WAR.—MARIUS AND SULLA.
39. 39.THE MITHRIDATIC AND CIVIL WARS.—MARIUS AND SULLA.
40. 40.ROME FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE GREAT CIVIL WARS OF CÆSAR AND POMPEY.—CICERO, POMPEY, AND CÆSAR.
41. 41.THE CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CÆSAR AND POMPEY.
42. 42.THE CIVIL WARS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF CÆSAR.—ANTONIUS.—AUGUSTUS.
43. 43.THE ROMAN EMPIRE ON THE ACCESSION OF AUGUSTUS.
44. 44.THE SIX CÆSARS OF THE JULIAN LINE.
45. 45.THE CLIMAX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
46. 46.THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE.
47. 47.THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE. — Advertisements. — Footnotes

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