| Description |
viii, 126 pages : map. ; 22 cm |
| Note |
First published in London, 1917, under title: The land of the two rivers. |
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Unchanged reprint of the 1918 edition of London. |
| Contents |
The "unchangeable east" -- The progress of man -- Ten thousand years before Christ -- The dawn in Egypt -- The dawn in Shinar -- Early kings of Sumer and Akkad -- Influence on other lands -- The rise of Babylon -- The original indo-Europeans -- The first Assyrian Empire -- Israel -- The second Assyrian Empire -- Assyria and Egypt -- The glory and fall of Assyria -- Medes and Armenians -- The new Babylonian kingdom -- An epoch in history -- Cyrus the persian -- The persian empire under Darius -- The religion of Zoroaster -- The Helleness -- Alexander the Great -- Hellenism under the Seleucids -- Disintegration of the Seleucid Empire, and the rise of the Parthians -- Armenia -- Dynasties in Asia minor -- Seleucid and Ptolemy: The question of Palestine -- The growth of the Jewish state -- The candidates for the inheritance -- Rome divides the heritage with Parthia -- Wars between Rome and Parthia -- The Persian Sasanian dynasty -- The Roman empire becomes Christian -- Hellenism in the Roman east Christian Rome against Persia -- Arabia intervenes -- Hellenism in Islam |
| Subject |
Middle East -- History.
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Middle East. |
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History. |
| Added Title |
Land of two rivers
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