The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ilU, ;.|.. Ul ,:l,, IN , , 1 1111, . CHAPTEE II. SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST. Nineveh and the first Cossasau kings—The of Syria, their towns,their civilization, their religion—Phoenicia. rTHE world beyond the Arabian desert presented to tlie eyes of the enterprising Pharaohs an active and bustling scene. Babylonian civilization still maintained its hold there without a rival, but Babylonian rule had ceased to exercise any longer a direct control, having prob
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ilU, ;.|.. Ul ,:l,, IN , , 1 1111, . CHAPTEE II. SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST. Nineveh and the first Cossasau kings—The of Syria, their towns,their civilization, their religion—Phoenicia. rTHE world beyond the Arabian desert presented to tlie eyes of the enterprising Pharaohs an active and bustling scene. Babylonian civilization still maintained its hold there without a rival, but Babylonian rule had ceased to exercise any longer a direct control, having probably disappeared with the sovereigns who had introduced it. When Ammisatana died, about the year 2099, the line of Khammurabi became extinct, and a family from the Sea-lands came into power.^ This unexpected revolution of affiiirs did not by any means restore to tlie cities of Lower Chalda)a the supreme authority wliich they once possessed. Babylon had made such good use of its centuries of rule that it had gained . upon its rivals, and was not likely now to fall back ? ./^-- into a secondary place. Henceforward, no matter what dynas
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