Outlines of general history . ehemiah at Jerusalem 458-425 Cincinnatus dictator at Rome 456 Peloponnesian War began 431 Battle of /Egos-potami (Spartan supremacy) 405 Death of Socrates 401 Rome burned by the Gauls 390 Battle of Leuctra (Theban supremacy) 371 Battle of Mantinea 361 Battle of Chaeronea (Macedonian suprem-acy) 338 Reign of Alexander the Great 336-323 Battle of Arbela and of Persian Empire 331 Battle of Ipsus and division of AlexandersEmpire 301 STUDENTS REVIEW OUTLINE. Par. (Four Pictures). — !. Fir. Inv. 2. Xer. Ther. Sal. Plat. 4. Ath. Sup. (Per.) 5. 6. Sp. Sup.
Outlines of general history . ehemiah at Jerusalem 458-425 Cincinnatus dictator at Rome 456 Peloponnesian War began 431 Battle of /Egos-potami (Spartan supremacy) 405 Death of Socrates 401 Rome burned by the Gauls 390 Battle of Leuctra (Theban supremacy) 371 Battle of Mantinea 361 Battle of Chaeronea (Macedonian suprem-acy) 338 Reign of Alexander the Great 336-323 Battle of Arbela and of Persian Empire 331 Battle of Ipsus and division of AlexandersEmpire 301 STUDENTS REVIEW OUTLINE. Par. (Four Pictures). — !. Fir. Inv. 2. Xer. Ther. Sal. Plat. 4. Ath. Sup. (Per.) 5. 6. Sp. Sup. (Leuc.) 7. Th. Sup. (Man.)8. Mac. Sup. (Cha.) 9. Alex. (Arb.) 10. Alex. ) 38 Outlines of General History. QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINA TION. What are the four great historic pictures of thefifth period ? Give account of three Persian wars, and their greatbattles. Name the successive supremacies over Greece, andthe battles by which they were marked. Give account of the conquests of Alexander, and theresults following 6. The Outlook from the Koman Forum. We cross the Adriatic Sea and find the his-tory of the world for six hundred years con-centrated in the story of the Romans, thosemen of iron, who first conquered and thengoverned the world. We stand in the centerof Roman power—the Forum—from whoseGolden Milestone the distances of earth aremeasured. Around us are statues of heroes,and above us are the temples of the gods ;the capital where the senate enacts laws forpeoples of a hundred languages, and the pal-ace of an emperor whose scepter sways from Outlines of General History. 39 the Atlantic to the Caspian, and from north-ern ice-fields to the Sahara. From our pointof view we look upon the currents of historyduring the six centuries between Alexanderand Constantine. We markyfrj-/, an era ofclass-strife, in which the people contendwith the nobles for a share in the government,and win their rights, until the old distinc-tion of patrician and plebeian cease to have
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