A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . After this time there was a seriesof Ethiopic rulers. Assyrian Conquest; Persian Conquest. — Egypt could not re-sist the power of Assyria. About 650 Psammetichus I.,one of the local rulers and an ally of the Assyrians, madehimself independent, and gained supreme authority. He madefriends with the Greeks. From this time their influence in-creased. Necho II. was no match for the power of ISTebuchad-nezzar, King of Babylon, by whom he was vanquished in thegreat battle of Carchemish, by the Euphrates. Egypt escaped from pe
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . After this time there was a seriesof Ethiopic rulers. Assyrian Conquest; Persian Conquest. — Egypt could not re-sist the power of Assyria. About 650 Psammetichus I.,one of the local rulers and an ally of the Assyrians, madehimself independent, and gained supreme authority. He madefriends with the Greeks. From this time their influence in-creased. Necho II. was no match for the power of ISTebuchad-nezzar, King of Babylon, by whom he was vanquished in thegreat battle of Carchemish, by the Euphrates. Egypt escaped from permanent subjugation under the As-syrians and Babylonians, but another powerful empire, that ofthe Persians, founded by Cyrus, reduced it to subjection. Itwas conquered by Cambyses, the successor of Cyrus, who madeit a Persian province (525 ). The last of the Persian kings EGYPT 33 of Egypt was dethroned by Alexander the Great, who leftEgypt in 331 In the division of Alexanders empire,Egypt fell to the share of the first king of the Greek lineof Phakaoh gives Audience to One of his Ministers{Maspero, The. Dawn of Cimlisation) Rulers and Classes. — The monarchs of Egypt were regardedwith superstitious veneration, and were looked upon as relatedto the gods, and as destined hereafter to be their reigned in splendor and selected the chief officers ofstate. The land was held by the nobles, generals, and civil administration was an orderly system and there was 34 EARLIEST GROUP OF NATIONS an effective training for military service. Tliere were no rigid barriers of caste and it was possible for the lowly to rise. From tlie beginning of the ISTew Empirethere was a middle class whichincluded in it artisans. Not untilthe New Empire was there a greatexaltation of the priesthood. Religion of the EgyT)tians. — Thereligion of the Egyptians was poly-theistic. Personal life was attri-buted to the various objects andoperations of nature. AVha
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