A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . had carried his armsas far as the river Ha-lys, the eastern limit ofthe kingdom of had succeeded in aconflict with a horde ofScythians which hadoverrun Syria and Baby-lonia, only the citiesholding out againstthem. By the alliedsovereigns, Cyaxares andNebuchadnezzar, the sonof Nabopolassar, Nine-veh was taken, and As-syria was divided be-tween Media and Babylonia, with the Tigris for the divid-ing line. Customs and Religion of the Assyrians. — The Assyrians weremore fierce than the Babylonians, and treated their cap
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . had carried his armsas far as the river Ha-lys, the eastern limit ofthe kingdom of had succeeded in aconflict with a horde ofScythians which hadoverrun Syria and Baby-lonia, only the citiesholding out againstthem. By the alliedsovereigns, Cyaxares andNebuchadnezzar, the sonof Nabopolassar, Nine-veh was taken, and As-syria was divided be-tween Media and Babylonia, with the Tigris for the divid-ing line. Customs and Religion of the Assyrians. — The Assyrians weremore fierce than the Babylonians, and treated their captiveswith more cruelty. The Babylonians were the teachers in thearts and in literature. Among them monogamy was general,but kings and other great personages had a plurality of existed in both lands. The sun and moon and manyother natural objects were worshiped. The gods were oftengrouped in triads. The national divinity in Babylon wasMarduk; in Assyria, Asshur. In both countries there was agoddess, called Mylitta in Babylon and Ishtar in Assyria, who. Genius with Eagles Head{British Museum) 44 EARLIEST GROUP OF NATIONS was at once a goddess of war and of love. She was worshipedin part by unchaste rites and practices. Under the names ofAshtoreth and Astarte her worship spread in other regions,especially in Asia Minor. Prayers and psalms, some of thelatter being pure in their tone, show to us the best side ofBabylonian devotion.
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