The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . Egypt—End of the Hamite Civilization 131 With this downfall of the five thousand year old religion, the native or Egj-p-tian Egypt ceased to exist
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . Egypt—End of the Hamite Civilization 131 With this downfall of the five thousand year old religion, the native or Egj-p-tian Egypt ceased to exist. Aryans and Semites brushed aside the last shredof Hamitic influence. Eg>pt had first surrendered her culture for that of the•Greeks, to whom she herself had given their earliest instruction centuries she had perforce given up her empire to the Romans, a race of whom hermightier Pharaohs had never heard, even as barbarians. Now she lost also herreligious faith, abandoning it for that sprung from the Hebrews who had beenher despised servants, her slaves before the exodus. Thus, with the decreeof Theodosius, the great and remarkable civilization created by the Hamiticrace lost the last shadow of its national Table Made from the Rosetta Stone.
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