. European history : an outline of its development. xxvii xxviii List of Books of Reference with genealogical and other tables. — Lorenz, Genealogisches Haiidbuchder Europiiischen Staatengeschichte. (7 marks.) Very good and fulltables. — Gtorge, Genealogical Tables. (Clarendon; $) The bestin English. In atlases, the teacher should have at hand something bet-ter than any English school historical atlas. — Droysen, HistorischerHand-atlas (Leipzig; 25 marks), and Schrader, Atlas de GeographieHistorique (Paris; 35 francs), are both very good.—The Oxford His-torical Atlas, publishing in 30 par
. European history : an outline of its development. xxvii xxviii List of Books of Reference with genealogical and other tables. — Lorenz, Genealogisches Haiidbuchder Europiiischen Staatengeschichte. (7 marks.) Very good and fulltables. — Gtorge, Genealogical Tables. (Clarendon; $) The bestin English. In atlases, the teacher should have at hand something bet-ter than any English school historical atlas. — Droysen, HistorischerHand-atlas (Leipzig; 25 marks), and Schrader, Atlas de GeographieHistorique (Paris; 35 francs), are both very good.—The Oxford His-torical Atlas, publishing in 30 parts (Clarendon ; ;^ each) is stillbetter, but more expensive. §4] Succession of the Historic Races 5 Tartar nations, which have had so much to do with thehistory of Asia, and which may have a larger influence uponthe future of the world than they have had upon its past. 4. The Succession of the Historic Races. — The centreof the ancient world was the Mediterranean Sea. In landsbordering on it, or within easy reach of it, the earliest. RocK-cuT Figures at Aba-Simbul civilizations of recorded history were formed. These were Recorded the Egyptian and the Assyrian in the valleys of the Nile and history be- the Euphrates. Their successor in dominion and civiliza- Mediterra- tion was the great empire of the Persians, but many valuable nean basin, additions were made to the common stock by some Oriental ^j^^ Oriental nations that did not found great empires, like the Phoeni- and the Hebrews. From these Eastern nations the The Earliest History [§4 The Greeks, line of our history passed to Europe and to the Greeks,who, borrowing some things from their predecessors, de-veloped one side of our civilization, the intellectual, to thehighest point which it was destined to reach for many The Romans, centuries. The Romans followed the Greeks in time, andformed a great state w^hich brought together into a commonunion all the lands of the Mediterranean basin, but in
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