Ancient States and Empires / For Colleges and Schools

by John Lord

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.]
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• [Footnotes]

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