FOOTNOTES
[1] Webster, Readings in Ancient History, chapter 1, "Three Oriental Peoples as Described by Herodotus."
[2] See page 25.
[3] See page 6.
[4] See page 37.
[5] For illustrations of Oriental coins see the plate facing page 134.
[6] See page 4.
[7] See page 5.
[8] "Tyrian purple" was a dye secured from a species of shellfish found along the Phoenician coast and in Greek waters.
[9] See I Kings, ix, 26-28. The site of Ophir is not known, though probably it was in southern Arabia.
[10] See Ezekiel, xxvii, 12, 25.
[11] A monument containing the code of Hammurabi was found on the site of Susa in 1901-1902 A.D. See the illustration, page 25.
[12] Chaldea was another name for Babylonia.
[13] See page 148.
[14] The names of four other week days come from the names of old Teutonic deities. Tuesday is the day of Tyr, Wednesday of Woden (Odin), Thursday of Thunor (Thor), and Friday of the goddess Frigga. See page 304.
[15] Zoroastrians are still to be found in the East In Persia, now a Mohammedan country, there is a little band of devoted followers of Zoroaster, who keep up to this day the tenets of their ancient faith. In India the Parsees of Bombay are the descendants of those Persians who fled from Persia at the time of the Mohammedan conquest (page 376), rather than surrender their cherished beliefs and embrace a new religion.
[16] Job, X, 21.
[17] See page 28.
[18] See the illustrations, pages 27, 54, 58, 63.
[19] See page 13.
[20] See page 186, note 2.
[21] See page 48.
[22] See the illustration, page 46.