The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ression which the country produced upon itsconquerors. With the exception of a few merchants oradventurers, no one from Thebes to Memphis hadany other idea of Asia than that which could begathered from the scattered notices of it in thesemi-historical romances of the preceding actual siglit of the country must have beena revelation; everything appearing new and para-doxical to men of whom the majority had never lefttheir fatherland, except on some warlike expedition into Ethiopia or on somerapid raid along tlie coasts of the Eed
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ression which the country produced upon itsconquerors. With the exception of a few merchants oradventurers, no one from Thebes to Memphis hadany other idea of Asia than that which could begathered from the scattered notices of it in thesemi-historical romances of the preceding actual siglit of the country must have beena revelation; everything appearing new and para-doxical to men of whom the majority had never lefttheir fatherland, except on some warlike expedition into Ethiopia or on somerapid raid along tlie coasts of the Eed Sea. Instead of their own narrowvalley, extending between its two mountain ranges, and fertilised by theperiodical overflowing of the Nile which recurred regularly almost to a day, Drawn by Boudier, from a photograpli by Ooleuischeft. Tho vignette, by Faucher-Gudin,reprcsenta tho fine btatue of Amenuthes II. in red granite, which came from Thebes, aud is now iutho Turin Museum; cf. Okoubti, Catalogo illustrato del Mvnumenti lujizi, vol. i. p. 59, u. 210 THE EIGHTEENTH TEEBAN DYNASTY. they bad before them wide irregular plains, owing their fertility not toinundations, but to occasional rains or tlie influence of insignificant streams;hills of varying heights covered with vines and other products of cultivation ;mountains of different altitudes irregularly distributed, clothed with forests,furrowed with torrents, their summits often crowned with snow even in thehottest period of summer: and in this region of nature, where everythingwas strange to them, they found nations differing widely from each other inappearance and customs, towns with crenellated walls perched upon heightsdiiBcult of access; and finally, a civilization far excelling that which theyencountered anywhere in Africa outside their own boundaries. Thutmosis succeeded in reaching on his first expedition a limit which noneof his successors was able to surpass, and the road taken by him in thiscampaign^—from Ga
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