. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. /tmlmfs miUst rd^vof^. J-ondon WV lleuianojut PruiUd by Oie Bilihoffapluitkt, 1^,0^,, Xor York i- t/tld7ore:r\ history of the world 58i Mediterranean — Egypt and the Greco-Macedonian world — all the others, fromthe time of ancient Rome to that of the Normans and the Crusades, from Veniceand Genoa to the modern great powers of the Western Mediterranean, have oftenturned tlieir faces toward the east. An apparent exception is only found in thePunic power of Carthage, which persistently remained in the West; yet the Phoe-nician mo

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. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. /tmlmfs miUst rd^vof^. J-ondon WV lleuianojut PruiUd by Oie Bilihoffapluitkt, 1^,0^,, Xor York i- t/tld7ore:r\ history of the world 58i Mediterranean — Egypt and the Greco-Macedonian world — all the others, fromthe time of ancient Rome to that of the Normans and the Crusades, from Veniceand Genoa to the modern great powers of the Western Mediterranean, have oftenturned tlieir faces toward the east. An apparent exception is only found in thePunic power of Carthage, which persistently remained in the West; yet the Phoe-nician mother country looked to the Far East for at least some portion of her work. This repeated trend of the Mediterranean nations toward the East is nothingaccidental or mysterious. Just as the most important events in the history of thePacific have centred roimd the coast of Eastern Asia, so in the history of the Medi-terranean, a considerable, and sometimes the leading, role has been played by thecoast of Western Asia. So long has Asia been tlie nurse

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