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 . I-IO. Babylonia—The Buildings of Ur-gur lo edge. The empire of Accad disappears. War must have become more were raids and counter-rai
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 . I-IO. Babylonia—The Buildings of Ur-gur lo edge. The empire of Accad disappears. War must have become more were raids and counter-raids, burnings and counter-burnings. Elam wasagain in arms. Sumer rejected the dominion of the north. Our next clear view reveals Sumer as again the centre of power. Its king isUr-gur, who was a Semite, but whose capital was Ur, one of the ancient Sumer-ian cities, not far from the southern coast. Under Ur-gur and his successorsUr held supremacy over the other cities for several centuries about three thousandyears before Christ. Once more the ancient temples were upraised. Ur-gurbuilt as no king before him had attempted to. At Nippur he set up a solid massof brick, eight feet high and covering more than five acres of ground. Thisgigantic mass was meant only as a foundation to raise the sanctuary above dangerof flood; yet even the foundation was no mere tumbled mass of bricks; channelsand drains ran through it, guiding its rain-water flow, and maki
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