The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Vol Loaded Mule (Koyunjik). Fig. 2 Fig. 3. Dog modelled in clay, from the palace of Asshur-bani-pal, Ko3-unjik. en. VIn.] FALL OF THE EMPIRE. 119 der the Parthians,* as a distinct people. When at last theycease to have a separate national existence, their name remains;and it is in memory of the successful cultivation of their favor-ite science by the people of Nimrod from his time to that ofAlexander, tha
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Vol Loaded Mule (Koyunjik). Fig. 2 Fig. 3. Dog modelled in clay, from the palace of Asshur-bani-pal, Ko3-unjik. en. VIn.] FALL OF THE EMPIRE. 119 der the Parthians,* as a distinct people. When at last theycease to have a separate national existence, their name remains;and it is in memory of the successful cultivation of their favor-ite science by the people of Nimrod from his time to that ofAlexander, that the professors of astronomical and astrolog-ical learning under the Roman Emperors receive, from thepoets and historians of the time, the appellation of Chal-daeans.* THE SECOND MONARCHY. ASSYRIA. CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY,• TpLTTjuopiT) 7 AaavoiJ} X^PV t^ dvvd/iet r^c a?.?.?!^ Aff/)7f.—Hehod. i. 198. THE site of the second—or great Assyrian—monarchy wasthe upi^er portion of the Mesopotamian valley. The citieswhich successively formed its capitals lay, all of them, uponthe middle Tigris; and the heart of the country was a districton either side that river, enclosed within the thirty-fifth andthirty-sevent
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