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PREFACE.

HIS being the third work on the subject of universal history which the author has given to the public, he has endeavored to make it as comprehensive and as full as space would permit; seeking to make the work take as wide a scope as possible, and endeavoring to dwell in proper proportions on every field of the history of mankind; so as to take in the political, religious, literary and social history of every nation which has had a history during the five thousand years of civilization.

Formerly, historians, to their utter reproach, dwelt almost wholly on the political and military affairs of nations; ignoring everything, or almost everything, relating to the religion, science, literature, art and social life of the various nations. In recent times there

has been a taste for running into the opposite extreme of unduly expanding everything concerning the life of the people, to the exclusion of a large portion of the national or political history of each people.

I have sought to avoid extremes in either direction, endeavoring all the time to preserve a proper mean, not dwarfing any one department of history at the expense of the others. It must be remembered that the great movements of mankind and the general progress of the human race are more connected with their national than with their social history, and that any system which subordinates the former to the latter is false. I, of course, refer to the extreme tendency to dwarf the national history below its proper proportions, or keep it wholly out of view. The political history of nations must constitute the groundwork of historical science.

On the other hand, I have steadily endeavored to avoid making this work a mere "drum and trumpet history." I have carefully sought to avoid dwelling mainly upon the civil and military annals of nations. The general condition of each nation in social life, in religion, and in intellectual culture, is fully dwelt upon; so as to enable the reader to obtain an intelligent view of the condition and progress of mankind through the ages. The history of every nation which has had a history is here given. The history of all important ancient nations is related; not only the history of the great empires. The history of the Hebrews, the Phoenicians, the ancient Syrians, Lydia and other kingdoms of Asia Minor, the ancient Ethiopians, the republic of Carthage, the Parthian and New Persian Empires, the ancient Hindoos and the ancient Chinese, is given; as well as the history of Egypt, Chaldæa, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Persia, Greece and Rome.

In regard to the general arrangement of the work, the ethnic plan has been followed in giving the ancient history; the history of each ancient nation being fully related. But concerning the mediæval and modern history, the synchronistic plan has been adopted; as the relations of the nations of Europe for the last fourteen centuries have been so inti

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mately connected that were the full history of each to be separately given, a vast deal of frequent repetition would be constantly necessary.

The geographical condition of the various countries is briefly noted, and their physical features are described. An important feature of the work are the historical maps, thirty-nine of which were carefully drawn by the author himself. The political geography of the historical portions of the earth is thus placed before the eye of the reader, so as to enable him to obtain at a glance a knowledge of the political changes which have been going on during five thousand years of history.

The numerous illustrations in the work are not simply designed for purposes of embellishment, but are intended for instruction as well. With these few prefatory remarks, these volumes are submitted to an intelligent public.

I. S. CLARE.

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Periods of Egyptian History.-Founding of the

First Dynasty at Memphis by Menes.-Contempo-

rary Dynasties.-Fourth Dynasty at Memphis and

the Great Pyramids.—High Civilization under the

Fourth Dynasty.-Contemporary Dynasties.-Five

Kingdoms in Egypt.-Great Power of Thebes.—

Conquest of Lower Egypt by the Shepherd Kings.

-Greatness of Thebes under the Twelfth Dynasty.

-The Labyrinth and Lake Moris.-Conquest of

Upper Egypt by the Shepherd Kings.-End of the

Old Empire.-The Middle Empire under the Shep-

herd Kings.-Their Barbarous Rule.-Absence of

Records -Expulsion of the Shepherd Kings.-

All Egypt United under the New Empire Over a

Thousand Years.-Prosperity, Power and High

Civilization of Egypt under the Eighteenth, Nine-

teenth and Twentieth Dynasties.-Amasis, Amen-

set, Thothmes IV.-Great Sphinx.-Amunoph III.

and the two Colossi.-Vocal Memnon.-Horus.-

Rameses I.-Seti and the Great Hall of Karnak.-

Rameses the Great.-Rameseum at Thebes.-

Height of Egyptian Art.-Menepta and the Exo-

dus.-Rameses III. and the Temple-Palace at

Thebes.-His Successors.-Decline of Egypt.-

The Priest-Kings.-Temporary Revival under the

Twenty-second Dynasty Founded by Sheshonk I.—

Disturbed Condition of Egypt under the next two

Dynasties.-Conquest of Egypt by Sabaco the

Ethiopian.-His Defeat by Sargon of Assyria at

Raphia-Assyrian Conquest of the Delta.—Tirha-

kah-Assyrian Conquest of Egypt.-Psammeti-

chus Recovers the Independence of Egypt.-Mi-

gration of the Warrior Caste to Ethiopia.—Reign

Origin of the Egyptians.-Their Physical Char-
acteristics.-Egyptian Tribes.-Intellectual and
Moral Qualities of the Egyptians.-Government.—
The King. His Sacred Character.-His Rights and
Duties Strictly Prescribed by the Sacred Books.-
Castes.-Priests.-Their Mode of Life.-Their As-
cendency over the People.-Priestly Professions.-
Physicians.-Military Caste.-Common People.-
Egyptian Castes Not Absolutely Fixed.-Intermar-
riages and Transitions.-Evils of the Caste System.
-Its Tendency to National Decay.-Egyptian Land
System.--Agricultural Laborers.-Egyptian Laws.-
Egyptian Army.--War Chariots.-Archery.-Weap-
ons of Warfare.-Treatment of Prisoners.-Muti-
lation of the Enemy's Slain.-Climate of the
Nile Valley.-Vegetables.-Animals.-Minerals.-
Causes of Egypt's Productiveness.-Cause of its
Dense Population.-Agriculture.-Song to Oxen.
·Care of Animals.-Field Sports.-Beasts of Bur-
den.-Egypt an Object of Interest in All Ages.—
Density of its Ancient Population. -Memphis and
Thebes.-Architecture.-Pyramids and Obelisks.-
Egypt the Ancient World's School.-Progress in

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The Ancient Ethiopians and their Country.-
Their Antiquity.-Savage and Civilized Ethiopians.
-Fertility of Ethiopia.-Monuments.-Meroe and
Its Caravan Trade.-Its Red Sea Ports.-Animals.
-Kingdom of Meroe.-Its History.-Ethiopian
Kings of Egypt.-Egyptian Migration to Ethiopia.
--Destruction of the Persian Army of Invasion by
Famine.-Ethiopian Religion.-The Priesthood
and Their Influence.-Temples.-Power of the
Priests Over the Kings.-Ethiopian Queens.-Can-
dace and her War with the Romans.-Judaism and
Christianity Successfully Established in Ethiopia.
-Christianity Still the Religion of Abyssinia.-
Pyramids of Meroe.—Kingdom of Axume and Its
Capital, Axum.-Ruins of Axum.-Inscription on
a Stone Slab.-King Aeizemus.-Nubian Pyra-
mids.-Temples near Merawe.-Great Rock Tem-
ple of Ipsambul.-Ruins of Barkal.-Rock-hewn
Temples.-Meroe as an Ancient Commercial Em-
porium.-Causes of its Extinction.

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GEOGRAPHY OF CHALDEA,

Cradle of Asiatic History and Civilization.-

Ancient Date in Chaldæan History.-Testimony of
the Hebrew Scriptures.-Land of Shinar.-The
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.-Geographical and
Political Divisions in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
-Mesopotamia.-Chaldæa, or Babylonia.-Susi-
ana.-Assyria.-The Three Great Empires in the
Tigris-Euphrates Valley.-Antiquity of Chaldæa.-
Its Fertility and Productions.-Testimony of He-
rodotus and Other Writers.-Brick and Bitumen.—
Climate of Chaldæa, or Babylonia.-Animals.-
Cities.-Testimony of the Book of Genesis.-Ur of
the Chaldees and Its Ruins.-Other Cities.

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Origin of Chaldæa.-Dynasties According to Be-
rosus.-Mosaic Account of Nimrod.-His Charac-
ter and Deification.-Universal Tradition of Nim-
rod.-Migrations from Chaldæa.-Urukh and His
Great Temples.-Ilgi.-His Signet-cylinder in the
British Museum.-Conquest of Chaldæa by a
Susianian or Elamite Dynasty.-Kudur-Nakhunta.
-Kadur-Lagamer and His Conquest of Canaan.-
His Successors.-Third and Fourth Dynasties.-
New Style of Architecture.-Conquest of Chal-
daa by an Arabian Dynasty.-Khammurabi and
His Great Canal.-His Successors.-Wars and

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CHALDEAN COSMOGONY AND RELIGION. 120-132

Chaldæan Account of the Creation as Given by

Berosus. Likeness Between Chaldæan and Jewish
Legends. Assyrian Account of the Creation as
Deciphered from the Tablet Inscriptions.-Myth-
ical Antediluvian Dynasty of Berosus.-Chaldæan
Account of the Deluge as Related by Berosus.-
Assyrian Account from the Tablets.-Traditions of
a Great Flood in Countries Subject to Overflows.—
Link Between Chaldæan and Jewish Legends.-
Account of the Tower of Babel by Berosus.-Raw-
linson's View of Chaldæan Mythology.-Polythe-
istic Religion of Chaldæa.-Grouping of the Chal-
dæan Deities.-Chief Deity.-First Triad and Their
Wives.-Second Triad and Their Wives.-Five
Planetary Deities.-Inferior Deities.-Relationship
of the Deities.-Il or Ra.-Ana and Anata.--Bel-
Nimrod.-Beltis or Mulita.-Hea or Hoa and Day-
kina. Sin or Hurki, and the Great Lady.-San or

Sansi, and Gula or Anunit.-Vul or Iva, and Shala
or Tala.-Nin or Ninip.-Merodach.-Nergal.-
Ishtar or Nana.—Symbolical Myth of Ishtar.-

Nebo.-Astronomical Character of the Chaldæan
Worship.-Origin of Astrological Signs and Super-

stitions.

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Periods of Assyrian History.-Chaldæan Origin

of the Assyrians.—First Evidence of Assyrian In-

dependence.-Shalmaneser I.-Tiglathi-Nin I.-

His Successors.-Mutaggil-Nebo and Asshur-ris-

ilim.-Tiglath-Pileser I.-His Wars.-His Restor-

ations and Temples.-His Invocation.-Religious

Tone of His Inscription.-General Condition of

Assyria.-Tiglath-Pileser's War with Babylon.-

Rock Tablet of Tiglath-Pileser I.-Asshur-bil-kala

and Shamas Vul I.-Obscure Interval.-Asshur-

dayan II., Vul-lush II. and Tiglathi-Nin II.-As-

shur-izir-pal.-His Wars.-His Edifices.-His Great

Palace. His Sculptures.-His Stelæ and Obelisks

-Shalmaneser II.-His Wars. -Tribute Taken

from Jehu, King of Israel.-His Palace.-The

Black Obelisk.-Rebellion of Asshur-danin-pal.—

Extent of Assyrian Dominion.-Shamas Vul II.-

Vul-lush III.-His Sculptures.-His Wife, Semir-

amis.-Pul.-Nabonassar at Babylon.-The Proph

et Jonah at Nineveh.-End of the Old Assyrian

Empire and Beginning of the New or Lower As-

syrian Empire under Tiglath-Pileser II.-His Wars.

-Shalmaneser IV.-His Wars.-Siege of Tyre and

Samaria. Sargon's Revolt and Usurpation.-His

Wars.-Capture of Samaria.-His War with Sa-

baco, King of Egypt.-Assyrian Victory at Raphia.

-Capture of Ashdod.-Sargon's Other Conquests.

-His War with Susiana.-Sargon's Town and Pal-

ace. -Sennacherib.-His Wars.-His Victory over

the Egyptians and Ethiopians at Altaku.-His

War with Hezekiah, King of Judah.-Siege of Je-

rusalem.- Submission of Hezekiah.- Sennache-

rib's Second Syrian Expedition.-Destruction_of

His Army at Pelusium.-Its Effects.-Sennache-

rib's War with Susiana.-Babylonian Revolt under

Susub.-Susub's Defeat.-Renewed Defection of

Babylon.-Sennacherib's Palace at Nineveh.-His

Employment of Forced Labor.-Assassination of

Sennacherib.-Esar-haddon.-His Wars. His In-

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ASSYRIAN RELIGION, . . .

Identity of the Assyrian and Chaldæan Relig-

ions. Few Differences.-Asshur the Supreme God
of Assyria.-Asshur's Deification.-Asshur's Em-
blems. The Sacred Tree.-The Next Deities.-
Anu.-His Temples.-Bel.-His Emblem.-His
Temples.-Hea or Hoa.-His Emblem.-His Tem-
ples.-Beltis.-Her Temples.-Sin, the Moon-god.
- His Emblem. - His Temples. - Shamas. - His
Emblem. His Temples.-Vul or Iva.-His Em-
blem.- His Temples.-Gula.-Her Emblem.-Her
Temples. Nin or Ninip. His Emblem. — His
Temples. Merodach.-His Emblem. - Nergel.—
His Emblem.-His Temples.-Ishtar.-Her Tem-
ples.-Nebo.-His Statues.-His Temple.-Inferior
Deities.-The Female Divinities.-Character of the
Goddesses.-Minor Male Deities.-Genii.-Good
Genii.-Evil Genii. -Their Figures. - Assyrian

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