The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . sia. It may be well to recall that Darius in consolidating his empiredivided his vast dominions into twenty provinces, and fixed the tri-bute they
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . sia. It may be well to recall that Darius in consolidating his empiredivided his vast dominions into twenty provinces, and fixed the tri-bute they were to pay to the royal treasury. Each province wasruled by a satrap or governor, and Darius was the first Persian kingwho coined money. His ambition and the aggressiveness of hispeople would not allow him to rest satisfied with the boundaries ofhis vast possessions. He determined to attack Scythia in Europe, on the wideplain between the Danube and the Don, peopled by a numerous body of fiercesavage tribes. Accordingly, he collected an immense army and ficct. Hisships were ordered to sail up the Danube and to throw a bridge of boats acrossthe river, while his army marched through Thrace, crossed the Danube bythis bridge, after which the fleet was to break down the structure and followthe army to Scythia. Reminded, however, of thus destroying the meai>s ofretreating, he told the Asiatic Greeks, in whose care he left it, to hold it intact. 184 The Story of the Greatest Nations for sixty days. If he did not return at the end of that time, they could breakdown the bridge and sail home. Then he marched away. The sixty days and more came and went without bringing any signs of thePersian army. Instead, a body of Scythians appeared, with news that Dariushad been defeated and was in full flight before the Scythians, who woulddestroy him and his army if the bridge failed them. They vehemently urgedthe Greeks to seize this chance of annihilating the Persian host and recoveringtheir o
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