The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . curity which has shroudedthem hitherto; and tinged as they are with the radiance oftheir later glories, they show brightly among the many insig-nificant tribes and nations with which Assyria has beenwarring for centuries; but it would be a mistake to supposethat these names have any present importance in the narra-tive, or represent powers capable as yet of contending onequal terms with the Assyrian Empir
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . curity which has shroudedthem hitherto; and tinged as they are with the radiance oftheir later glories, they show brightly among the many insig-nificant tribes and nations with which Assyria has beenwarring for centuries; but it would be a mistake to supposethat these names have any present importance in the narra-tive, or represent powers capable as yet of contending onequal terms with the Assyrian Empire, or even of seriouslychecking the progress of her successes. The Medes and Per-sians are at this period no more powerful than the Zimri, theMinni, the Urarda, ^^^ or than half a dozen others of the bordernations, whose appellations sound strange in the ears even ofthe advanced student. Neither of the two great Arian peo-ples had as yet a capital city, neither was miited imder aking; separated into numerous tribes, each under its chief,dispersed in scattered towns and villages, poorlj* fortified ornot fortified at all, they were in the same condition as the Heada of Eunuchs (Nimrud).. Fnlarged figure of the <iiiccn (Kojunjik). Plate CXVI Vo!, I
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