| 1. | What is remarkable in the early history of Egypt? | [§§ 126-128.] |
| 2. | Describe the first monarch of the united empire. | [129.] |
| 3. | His successors in the same dynasty. | [130.] |
| 4. | How many dynasties before the Persian Conquest? | [163.] |
| 5. | Describe the kings of the Third Dynasty. | [131], [132]. |
| 6. | The Pyramid-builders. | [133-135.] |
| 7. | What dynasties were subject to the fourth? | [136.] |
| 8. | Describe the divisions of Egypt and their consequences. | [138], [139]. |
| 9. | The monuments of the Twelfth Dynasty. | [140.] |
| 10. | The dominion and character of the Hyksos. | [141], [142]. |
| 11. | The rise of the New Empire. | [143.] |
| 12. | The family of Thothmes I. | [146], [147]. |
| 13. | Name the remaining kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. | [148], [149]. |
| 14. | Who founded the Nineteenth Dynasty? | [150.] |
| 15. | Describe its second and third kings. | [150-152.] |
| 16. | The Exodus of the Hebrews. | [154.] |
| 17. | Egypt under the Twentieth Dynasty. | [155], [156]. |
| 18. | What connections of Egyptian and Hebrew history under the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties? | [157], [158]. |
| 19. | Who constituted the Twenty-fourth Dynasty? | [160.] |
| 20. | Tell the history of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. | [161.] |
| 21. | What was the condition of Egypt after the fall of Tirhakeh? | [162.] |
| 22. | What led to the rise of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty? | [163.] |
| 23. | What was the foreign policy of Psammetichus? | [164.] |
| 24. | What naval enterprise in the reign of Necho? | [166.] |
| 25. | Describe the reigns of Apries and Amasis. | [167.] |
| 26. | The theory and practice of Egyptian religion. | [169], [170]. |
| 27. | What were the objects of worship? | [171], [172], [175]. |
| 28. | Describe the twofold judgment of the dead. | [177], [178]. |
| 29. | Into what ranks were Egyptians divided? | [180.] |
| 30. | Who owned the land? | [181.] |
| 31. | Describe the dignities and duties of the king. | [182], [183]. |
| 32. | The life and power of the priests. | [184.] |
| 33. | Their medical practice. | [185.] |
| 34. | The tombs, and honors paid to the dead. | [187.] |
| 35. | Give the traditional account of the founding of Carthage | [188], [189]. |
| 36. | Describe the causes of its prosperity. | [191.] |
| 37. | The extent of its dominion. | [192], [193]. |
| 38. | Its army and navy. | [194], [195]. |
| 39. | What war and what alliance in the sixth century? | [196.] |
| 40. | Describe the government of Carthage. | [197-199.] |
| 41. | Its religion. | [200.] |
| 42. | Its trade by land and sea. | [201-203.] |
| 43. | What was the favorite pursuit of the Carthaginians? | [204.] |
BOOK II.
The Persian Empire from the Rise of Cyrus to the Fall of Darius.
B. C. 558-330.
1. About 650 B. C., a warlike people, from the highlands east of the Caspian, took possession of the hilly country north of the Persian Gulf. They belonged, like the Medes, to the Aryan or Indo-Germanic family, and were distinguished by a more hardy, simple, and virtuous character, and a purer faith, from the luxurious inhabitants of the Babylonian plains. The nation, as it soon became constituted, consisted of ten tribes, of whom four continued nomadic, three settled to the cultivation of the soil, and three bore arms for the general defense. Of these the Pasar´gadæ were preëminent, and formed the nobility of Persia, holding all high offices in the army and about the court.
2. The first king, Achæ´menes, was a Pasargadian, and from him all subsequent Persian kings were descended. For the first hundred years of its history, Persia was dependent upon the neighboring kingdom of Media. But a little after the middle of the sixth century before Christ, a revolution under Cy´rus reversed the relations of the Medo-Persian monarchy, and prepared the foundations of a great empire which was to reach beyond the Nile and the Hellespont on the west, and the Indus on the east.
3. Cyrus spent many of his early years at the court of Asty´ages, his maternal grandfather, in the seven-walled city of Ecbat´ana.[21] The brave, athletic youth, accustomed to hardy sports and simple fare, despised the wine and dainty food, the painted faces and silken garments of the Median nobles. He saw that their strength was wasted by luxury, and that in case of a collision they would be no match for his warlike countrymen. At the same time, a party of the younger Medes gathered around Cyrus, preferring his manly virtues to the effeminate pomp and cruel tyranny of their king, and impatient for the time when he should be their ruler.
B. C. 558.