The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . the Persians were finally defeated. Theirempire lasted, however, a century and a half more, until Alexander theGreat conquered it and united it with the Greek world (§§ 276 ff.). 1 It is time for the student to have a definite understanding of this term,which is used constantly in measuring time. A generation means the aver-age interval that separates a father from his son. This corresponds in length,also, in a rough way, to the active years of adult life, — the period betweenearly manhood and old age. It is reckoned at twenty-five or thir
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . the Persians were finally defeated. Theirempire lasted, however, a century and a half more, until Alexander theGreat conquered it and united it with the Greek world (§§ 276 ff.). 1 It is time for the student to have a definite understanding of this term,which is used constantly in measuring time. A generation means the aver-age interval that separates a father from his son. This corresponds in length,also, in a rough way, to the active years of adult life, — the period betweenearly manhood and old age. It is reckoned at twenty-five or thirty years. 2 This prince is known in history as Cyrus the Great. He is the earliestsovereign whose name we distinguish in that way. A student may well makea special report to the class upon the stories connected with his life. Anylarge history of ancient times gives some of these stories ; and they may befound, in the original form in which they have come down to us, in a transla-tion of Herodotus. See also Davis Readings, Vol. I. Nos. 25 and I §74] RISE AND GROWTH 85 73. Extent of the Empire. — The field of history now widenedagaiii. The next three Persian kings (after Cyrus and hisson) added vast districts to the empire: on the east, modernAfghanistan and northwestern India, with wide regions to thenortheast beyond the Caspian Sea; and on the west, the Euro-pean coast from the Black Sea to the Greek peninsula andthe islands of the ^gean. This huge empire contained about seventy-five million only civilized neighbors were India and Greece. Else-
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