Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . d cities. Wherever this is the case,we may be sure that ancient llittite sanctuaries ex-isted. Ephesus, Smyrna, Kyme, and several other[ilaces along the Ionian coast come under this , It is jn-obable that the llittite rule and culturereached their widest westwartl expansion suoii after * See Story of Assyria, pp. 30, 36, 205, 206, and | A. II. Sayccs AnciciU Enipircs oi the Eabt, p. 430. 202 MEDIA, BABYLON, AXP FKKSIA. the fifteenth centu
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . d cities. Wherever this is the case,we may be sure that ancient llittite sanctuaries ex-isted. Ephesus, Smyrna, Kyme, and several other[ilaces along the Ionian coast come under this , It is jn-obable that the llittite rule and culturereached their widest westwartl expansion suoii after * See Story of Assyria, pp. 30, 36, 205, 206, and | A. II. Sayccs AnciciU Enipircs oi the Eabt, p. 430. 202 MEDIA, BABYLON, AXP FKKSIA. the fifteenth century , and maintained theirsupremacy until about the year lOOO , at least inAsia Minor, as in Syria— The Land of Khatti of theinscriptions,—they had already begun to recede be-fore the aggressive advance of Assyria, and the pres-sure of Semitic elements generally. But even inAsia Minor the great Thraco-Phrygian migration hadoverspread the forgotten Turanian subsoil and Hit-tite cultivated ground with an Indo-European top-layer,* and apart from this movement, during thecentury ranging from somewhere in the tenth—^. 27. UKANARY IN MODERN LYCIA. soon after lOOO — to the middle uf the ninth orlater, Asia Minor was subjected to a continuous flowof Indo-European influences from a far more con-genial and civilizing quarter—the continent andislands of Southern Greece and Peloponnesus. 10. An important revolution was then slowly, butby no means peacefully, changing the face of therather motley assemblage of small states, republics,and free cities which was a couple of hundred yearslater to glorv in the common name of 11 ELLAS. The * .See Story of Assyria, pp. 360 and 267-369.
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