Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . re extent of territory, was amply made up for bythe extreme fertility of her dominions, lier flourish-ing trade and boundless natural resources, as well asby her dense population and the exhaustless wealthof her cities, among which she now numbered mostof the Greek colonies. Thus a real balance of powerswas established in the East—the first known in-stance of that jealous policy which has now for so* See ? Story of Assyria, p. 428. 222 MEDIA, , AAJ)
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . re extent of territory, was amply made up for bythe extreme fertility of her dominions, lier flourish-ing trade and boundless natural resources, as well asby her dense population and the exhaustless wealthof her cities, among which she now numbered mostof the Greek colonies. Thus a real balance of powerswas established in the East—the first known in-stance of that jealous policy which has now for so* See ? Story of Assyria, p. 428. 222 MEDIA, , AAJ) PERSIA. Iuiil; been the leading principle of Iuii\)i)ean states-men. 19. The date of the Battle of the Kclipsc has beenthe subject of unending discussion, because, unfortunatcly, there have been several eclipses about thattime, within some thirty years, and it was found verydifficult to determine which was the one predictedby Thalcs. Scholars, however, influenced by varioushistorical and chronological considerations, at presentgenerally incline to give it the latest possible date—which would be 585, as Kyaxares died in
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