. Six thousand years of history. tary caste of Egypt emigrated into Ethiopia,and left the King dependant on his foreign troops, withwhom he warred in Syria and Phoenicia. Egyptian policyat this time, and in succeeding reigns, seems to have aimedat the development of commerce, and the securing forEgypt of the routes and commercial centers for the trade,by the Red Sea, between Europe and Asia. Necho, son ofPsammetichus, succeeded his father, and reigned fromB. C. 617 to 601. He was an energetic, enterprisingprince, who built fleets on the Red Sea and the Mediter-ranean, and strove to join the Ni
. Six thousand years of history. tary caste of Egypt emigrated into Ethiopia,and left the King dependant on his foreign troops, withwhom he warred in Syria and Phoenicia. Egyptian policyat this time, and in succeeding reigns, seems to have aimedat the development of commerce, and the securing forEgypt of the routes and commercial centers for the trade,by the Red Sea, between Europe and Asia. Necho, son ofPsammetichus, succeeded his father, and reigned fromB. C. 617 to 601. He was an energetic, enterprisingprince, who built fleets on the Red Sea and the Mediter-ranean, and strove to join the Nile, by a canal, with theRed Sea. Africa was circumnavigated by Phoenicians inhis service, who sailed from the Arabian Gulf, and passedround by the Straits of Gibraltar to the mouths of the was the King who fought with and defeated Josiah,King of Judah, sustaining afterwards defeat from Neb-uchadnezzar, King of Babylon. In B. C. 594 came Apries, the Pharaoh-Hophra ofScripture, who conquered Sidon, and was an ally of Zede-. BUILDING THE PYRAMID OF CHEOPSPainting by G. Ritchter EGYPT 33 kiah, King of Judah, against Nebuchadnezzar. Afterbeing repulsed with severe loss in an attack on the Greekcolony of Cyrene, west of Egypt, Apries was dethronedby Amasis, who reigned from B. C. 570 to 526. His longand prosperous rule was marked by a closer intercoursethan heretofore with the Greeks. Psammenitus, son of Amasis, inherited a quarrel ofhis father with Cambyses, King of Persia, who invadedand conquered Egypt in B. C. 525. For nearly two hun-dred years afterward the history of Egypt is marked,disastrously, by constant struggles between the people andtheir Persian conquerors, and, in a more favorable andinteresting way, by the growing intercourse between theland of the Nile and the Greeks. Greek historians andphilosophers—Herodotus and Anaxagoras and Plato—visited the country and took back stores of information onits wonders, its culture, and its faith. In B. C. 332 Egypt was
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