Ancient States and Empires / For Colleges and Schools

by John Lord

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. The Antediluvian World
  3. Postdiluvian History to the Call of Abraham.—The Patriarchal Constitution, and the Division of Nations
  4. The Hebrew Race from Abraham to the Sale of Joseph
  5. Egypt and the Pharaohs
  6. The Jews Until the Conquest of Canaan
  7. The Conquest of Canaan to the Establishment of the Kingdom of David
  8. The Jewish Monarchy
  9. The Old Chaldean and Assyrian Monarchies
  10. The Empire of the Medes and Persians
  11. Asia Minor and Phœnicia
  12. Jewish History from the Babylonian Captivity to the Birth of Christ.—The High Priests and the Asmonean and Idumean Kings
  13. The Roman Governors
  14. The Geography of Ancient Greece and Its Early Inhabitants
  15. The Legends of Ancient Greece
  16. The Grecian States and Colonies to the Persian Wars
  17. Grecian Civilization Before the Persian Wars
  18. The Persian War
  19. The Age of Pericles
  20. The Peloponnesian War
  21. March of Cyrus and Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks
  22. The Lacedæmonian Empire
  23. The Republic of Thebes
  24. Dionysius and Sicily
  25. Philip of Macedon
  26. Alexander the Great
  27. Rome in Its Infancy, Under Kings
  28. The Roman Republic Till the Invasion of the Gauls
  29. The Conquest of Italy
  30. The First Punic War
  31. The Second Punic or Hannibalic War
  32. The Macedonian and Asiatic Wars
  33. The Third Punic War
  34. Roman Conquests from the Fall of Carthage to the Times of the Gracchi
  35. Roman Civilization at the Close of the Third Punic War, and the Fall of Greece
  36. The Reform Movement of the Gracchi
  37. The Wars with Jugurtha and the Cimbri.—Marius
  38. The Revolt of Italy, and the Social War.—Marius and Sulla
  39. The Mithridatic and Civil Wars.—Marius and Sulla
  40. Rome from the Death of Sulla to the Great Civil Wars of Cæsar and Pompey.—Cicero, Pompey, and Cæsar
  41. The Civil Wars Between Cæsar and Pompey
  42. The Civil Wars Following the Death of Cæsar.—Antonius.—Augustus
  43. The Roman Empire on the Accession of Augustus
  44. The Six Cæsars of the Julian Line
  45. The Climax of the Roman Empire
  46. The Decline of the Empire
  47. The Fall of the Empire
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