Ancient History For Colleges And High Schools The Eastern Nations And Greece

Author : William F. Allen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330460900
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Ancient History, Vol. 1 written by William F. Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient History, Vol. 1: For Colleges and High Schools; The Eastern Nations and Greece The following pages are a revision and expansion of the corresponding part of my Outlines of Ancient History, which was published as a library book in 1882, by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. It is through the generous action of these publishers that I have had the advantage of making this earlier work the basis of the present text-book. The chapters relating to the Eastern nations have been rewritten in the light of the most recent revelations of the monuments of Egypt and Babylonia. The connecting links between the history of the East and that of the West have been carefully traced, and the influence of Oriental civilization upon the later development of the Western peoples fully indicated. It is shown that, before the East gave a religion to the West, it imparted to the younger peoples of Europe many primary elements of art and general culture. This lends a sort of epic unity to a series of events and historic developments too apt to be regarded as fragmentary and unrelated, and invests the history of the old civilizations of the Orient with fresh interest and instruction. In tracing the growth of Greek civilization, while the value of the germs of culture which the Greeks received from the older nations of the East is strongly insisted upon, still it is admitted that the determining factor in the wonderful Greek development was the peculiar genius of the Greek race itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.