Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . 8 ANCIENT ORIENTAL MONARCHIES. SECTION I. THE ANCIENT ORIENTAL MONARCHIES. CHAPTER SKETCH, 1. The ancient Oriental civilizations to be treated of inOriental na- this section Comprise the monarchies of Egypt,*°®- Ass3n:ia and Babylonia, Judaea, Phoenicia,India, and Persia. 2. With the single exception of Egypt, the seat of all the ancient Oriental nations was in Asia. And of Historic area. , . , ,. . ^ , , , . , this grand division
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . 8 ANCIENT ORIENTAL MONARCHIES. SECTION I. THE ANCIENT ORIENTAL MONARCHIES. CHAPTER SKETCH, 1. The ancient Oriental civilizations to be treated of inOriental na- this section Comprise the monarchies of Egypt,*°®- Ass3n:ia and Babylonia, Judaea, Phoenicia,India, and Persia. 2. With the single exception of Egypt, the seat of all the ancient Oriental nations was in Asia. And of Historic area. , . , ,. . ^ , , , . , this grand division of the globe it is to beobserved that only a small part has any connection withhistory proper. Historical Asia is in reality SouthwesternAsia. 3. All that part of Asia north of the Altai range is a com-„ ^ . paratively barren waste. It was almost wholly Northern Asia. , -^ . . -^ unknown in Central Asia, extending between the 50th and the 40thc t 1A • parallels of north latitude, — known to ancientwriters as Scythia, — is a region of vast pla-teaus. Being destitute of arable land, it is a mere countryof pasture.
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