The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . Rome—Reign of Tiberius 419 mans were busy quarrelling among themselves ; fresh legions were hastily raised,and the danger passed away. Augustus died in 14, and was succeeded by his step-son, TiberiusClaudius Nero, known as Tiberius, who was born 42. Jesus Christ wascrucified in the nineteenth year of this reign. It was at Antioch, in Syria,where
The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . Rome—Reign of Tiberius 419 mans were busy quarrelling among themselves ; fresh legions were hastily raised,and the danger passed away. Augustus died in 14, and was succeeded by his step-son, TiberiusClaudius Nero, known as Tiberius, who was born 42. Jesus Christ wascrucified in the nineteenth year of this reign. It was at Antioch, in Syria,where Saul and Barnabas taught the faith, that the believers first received thename of Christians. Then began those wonderful missionary journeys ofthe Apostles, which carried the gospel through Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy,and Rome became the capital of Christendom. Silently but irresistibly thetrue faith spread, first among the Jews, then among the Greeks, or eastern, andthe Latin, or western, Gentiles, until it became the one true and accepted re-ligion throughout the civilized world. When Tiberius ascended the throne, his manliness and moderation gavepromise of a prosperous reign, but he was jealous from the first of his popularneph
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