A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . la, and came to land in theGulf of Suez, at the mouth of the Nile canal. Great royal highwayswere constructed, extending to almost all parts of the empire, from THE GREEKS AND DARIUS. 181 the western coast of Asia Minor to the deserts east of tlie CaspianSea. They can be traced in detail from ruins and from the descrip-tions of ancient writers, who frequently give the distances betweenimportant points lying upon them. Darius in the later years of his reign made the conquest of north-western India. A portio
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . la, and came to land in theGulf of Suez, at the mouth of the Nile canal. Great royal highwayswere constructed, extending to almost all parts of the empire, from THE GREEKS AND DARIUS. 181 the western coast of Asia Minor to the deserts east of tlie CaspianSea. They can be traced in detail from ruins and from the descrip-tions of ancient writers, who frequently give the distances betweenimportant points lying upon them. Darius in the later years of his reign made the conquest of north-western India. A portion of the Panjab, the Pactyes, in the valleyof the Indus, the ancestors of the Afghans, even the Dardae in theHimalaya mountains, were brought into subjection. Then the kingturned liis attention to the opposite extremity of his empire, andsending a fleet along the coasts of the Black Sea, prepared an ex-pedition against the European Scythians. Mandrocles of Samosthrew a bridge across the Bosporus, and an army set foot uponthe soil of southern Russia. The object of this campaign, which. Figs. 35 and 36. — Persian coins. (After Mionnet.) was described by Herodotus, was to restrain the Scythians fromhostile demostrations against the Persians in case of an expedi-tion against Greece. It was attained. Meantime Megabazus hadreduced Thrace, and compelled Macedonia to pay tribute. A per-sonal quarrel between Aiistagoras, tj^rant of Miletus, and jVIega-bates, a commander of the Persian fleet, occasioned the Ionian revolt(501 ). The Greeks burned Sardis; the Carians and the popu-lations along the Hellespont and on the island of Cyprus proclaimedtheir independence of Persian authority, and only the lack of unityamong the Greeks prevented them from regaining their Athenians took the part of the insurgents; and the tyrant Hip-pias, who had been expelled from Athens, and had fled to Darius,strengthened the king in his purpose of incorporating EuropeanGreece into his kingdom.
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