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 . yria, Media; Sayce, History of Sen-nacherib; Budge, History of Esarhaddon; Smith, History of Assurbanipal; ,Nineveh and Its Remains; Peters
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 . yria, Media; Sayce, History of Sen-nacherib; Budge, History of Esarhaddon; Smith, History of Assurbanipal; ,Nineveh and Its Remains; Peters, Nippur; Hilprecht, Explorations in Bible Lands.] ISTORY begins in the Asiatic land of Babylonia. Very-recent discoveries have revealed to us that there, atleast five thousand years before Christ, and probablytwice that long ago, man had built himself cities andorganized a government. This early civihzation wasremarkable in itself, and doubly remarkable as beingapparently the very first wherein man rose definitelyabove the savage state, and realized his own destiny asmaster of the earth. The time-worn records of those glowing days of Intel-lects first triumphant outburst have been at last recovered, at least in part,from the earth in which they had lain buried for ages. The surprising ghmpsesthus given of the past have revolutionized many of our ideas of ancienthistory. The story of the world must be told all over again, from the 4 The Story of the Greatest Nations That first beginning of man, Gods marvellous and mystic act of thecreation of humanity, was once supposed to have taken place barely six thousandyears ago; but we know now that our human race has inhabited earth for nearersixty thousand years than six. Scientists incbne today to the belief that therewas only one creation, or in other words, that all mankind sprang from a singlerace. But the descendants of that race had spread abroad over every continentlong before they became civilized enough to leave an
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