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 . ^. THE RETURN OF BEL-MARDUK (The Babylonians Celebrate the Rescue of Their God from Captivity) After a painting by the noted French artist, Henri
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 . ^. THE RETURN OF BEL-MARDUK (The Babylonians Celebrate the Rescue of Their God from Captivity) After a painting by the noted French artist, Henri Paul Motte THOUGH Babylon remained for over two thousand yearsthe chief city of the Euphrates valley and, indeed, of allthe world, yet Babylon was not always able to imposeits military power upon the other cities. More than once themetropolis was driven to struggle desperately for mere exis-tence. On two separate occasions it had to surrender to con-querors, who carried off its chief gods and set these up in theconquerors own capital as tokens of triumph. In this way thegreat god, Bel-Marduk, was held in captivity by the Elamites, anation who lived in the mountains of Persia overlooking theEuphrates valley, and who often rushed suddenly down uponthe lowlands in plundering raids. Nebuchadnezzar I., the king of Babylon, led a great armyagainst Elam and compelled the restoration of home-coming of the idol was the occasion of the gor
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