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 . caused by the dominance of a repressive and aristo-cratic priesthood. More recently it has been urgedthat her downfall was but the natural consequ
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 . caused by the dominance of a repressive and aristo-cratic priesthood. More recently it has been urgedthat her downfall was but the natural consequenceof the dominance of a brutal militarism which seizedupon a peacefully minded people and drove them into an in-cessant and needless warfare which resulted in exhaustion. The power of the Egyptian priests is certainly shown in thechange from the eighteenth dynasty of the Pharaohs to thecelebrated nineteenth. This was the result of the struggle toeradicate the new Asiatic religion which Amenhotep IV. had in-troduced. A successful general, Horem-heb, or as the Greekscalled him, Armais, was made king, and aided the priests in re-storing the ancient worship of return to the former gods was popular with the mass of the peoplewho had not yet accepted the new Asiatic faith, and Horem-heb, the re-storer, became a noted figure in Egyptian legend. We are told that hewas the son of the god Amon whose worship he restored, that he was de- 120.
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