Ancient States and Empires

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Ancient States and Empires

For Colleges And Schools

By

John Lord LL.D.

Author of the “Old Roman World”

“Modern History” &c.

New York

Charles Scribner & Company

1869

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Contents

• PREFACE.
• BOOK I. ANCIENT ORIENTAL NATIONS.
• CHAPTER I. THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.
• CHAPTER II. POSTDILUVIAN HISTORY TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM.—THE PATRIARCHAL CONSTITUTION, AND THE DIVISION OF NATIONS.
• CHAPTER III. THE HEBREW RACE FROM ABRAHAM TO THE SALE OF JOSEPH.
• CHAPTER IV. EGYPT AND THE PHARAOHS.
• CHAPTER V. THE JEWS UNTIL THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN.
• CHAPTER VI. THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF DAVID.
• CHAPTER VII. THE JEWISH MONARCHY.
• CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN MONARCHIES.
• CHAPTER IX. THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
• CHAPTER X. ASIA MINOR AND PHŒNICIA.
• CHAPTER XI. JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.—THE HIGH PRIESTS AND THE ASMONEAN AND IDUMEAN KINGS.
• CHAPTER XII. THE ROMAN GOVERNORS.
• BOOK II. THE GRECIAN STATES.
• CHAPTER XIII. THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ITS EARLY INHABITANTS.
• CHAPTER XIV. THE LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE.
• CHAPTER XV. THE GRECIAN STATES AND COLONIES TO THE PERSIAN WARS.
• CHAPTER XVI. GRECIAN CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS.
• CHAPTER XVII. THE PERSIAN WAR.
• CHAPTER XVIII. THE AGE OF PERICLES.
• CHAPTER XIX. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
• CHAPTER XX. MARCH OF CYRUS AND RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
• CHAPTER XXI. THE LACEDÆMONIAN EMPIRE.
• CHAPTER XXII. THE REPUBLIC OF THEBES.
• CHAPTER XXIII. DIONYSIUS AND SICILY.
• CHAPTER XXIV. PHILIP OF MACEDON.
• CHAPTER XXV. ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
• BOOK III. THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
• CHAPTER XXVI. ROME IN ITS INFANCY, UNDER KINGS.
• CHAPTER XXVII. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC TILL THE INVASION OF THE GAULS.
• CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CONQUEST OF ITALY.
• CHAPTER XXIX. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR.
• CHAPTER XXX. THE SECOND PUNIC OR HANNIBALIC WAR.
• CHAPTER XXXI. THE MACEDONIAN AND ASIATIC WARS.
• CHAPTER XXXII. THE THIRD PUNIC WAR.
• CHAPTER XXXIII. ROMAN CONQUESTS FROM THE FALL OF CARTHAGE TO THE TIMES OF THE GRACCHI.
• CHAPTER XXXIV. ROMAN CIVILIZATION AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD PUNIC WAR, AND THE FALL OF GREECE.
• CHAPTER XXXV. THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI.
• CHAPTER XXXVI. THE WARS WITH JUGURTHA AND THE CIMBRI.—MARIUS.
• CHAPTER XXXVII. THE REVOLT OF ITALY, AND THE SOCIAL WAR.—MARIUS AND SULLA.
• CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE MITHRIDATIC AND CIVIL WARS.—MARIUS AND SULLA.
• CHAPTER XXXIX. ROME FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE GREAT CIVIL WARS OF CÆSAR AND POMPEY.—CICERO, POMPEY, AND CÆSAR.
• CHAPTER XL. THE CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CÆSAR AND POMPEY.
• CHAPTER XLI. THE CIVIL WARS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF CÆSAR.—ANTONIUS.—AUGUSTUS.
• CHAPTER XLII. THE ROMAN EMPIRE ON THE ACCESSION OF AUGUSTUS.
• CHAPTER XLIII. THE SIX CÆSARS OF THE JULIAN LINE.
• CHAPTER XLIV. THE CLIMAX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
• CHAPTER XLV. THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE.
• CHAPTER XLVI. THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE.
• Advertisements.
• Footnotes

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