A Manual of Ancient History

Name: A Manual of Ancient History
Author: M. E. Thalheimer

by M. E. Thalheimer

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A MANUAL OF Ancient History.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
SOURCES AND DIVISIONS OF HISTORY.
BOOK I. Nations of Asia and Africa from the Dispersion at Babel to the Foundation of the Persian Empire. B. C. (about) 2700-558.
PART I. ASIATIC NATIONS.
VIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA.
CHALDÆAN MONARCHY.
ASSYRIAN MONARCHY.
MEDIAN MONARCHY.
BABYLONIAN MONARCHY.
KINGDOMS OF ASIA MINOR.
PHŒNICIA.
SYRIA.
JUDÆA.
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW. Book I.—Part I.
PART II. AFRICAN NATIONS.
GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF AFRICA.
HISTORY OF EGYPT.
RELIGION OF EGYPT.
CARTHAGE.
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW. Book I.—Part II.
BOOK II. The Persian Empire from the Rise of Cyrus to the Fall of Darius. B. C. 558-330.
RECAPITULATION.
Persian Religion.
RECAPITULATION.
Reign of Xerxes I.
RECAPITULATION.
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW. Book II.
BOOK III. Grecian States and Colonies from their Earliest Period to the Accession of Alexander the Great.
GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF GREECE.
HISTORY OF GREECE.
Periods.
Second Period. B. C. 1100-500.
Sparta.
Grecian Colonies.
Third Period. B. C. 500-338.
Growth of Athens.
Supremacy of Athens.
The Peloponnesian War.
The Sicilian Expedition.
Decline of Athens.
Spartan Supremacy.
Supremacy of Thebes.
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW. Book III.
BOOK IV. History of the Macedonian Empire and the Kingdoms formed from it, until their Conquest by the Romans.
First Period. From the Rise of the Monarchy to the Death of Alexander the Great, about B. C. 700-323.
RECAPITULATION.
Second Period. From the Death of Alexander to the Battle of Ipsus, B. C. 323-301.
RECAPITULATION.
Third Period. History of the Several Kingdoms into which Alexander’s Empire was divided.
I. The Syrian Kingdom of the Seleu´cidæ. B. C. 312-65.
II. Egypt under the Ptolemies. B. C. 323-30.
III. Macedonia and Greece.
IV. Thrace.
V. Kingdom of Pergamus.
VI. Bithynia.
VII. Pontus.
VIII. Cappadocia.
IX. Armenia.
X. Bactria.
XI. Parthian Empire of the Arsacidæ.
XII. Judæa.
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW. Book IV.
BOOK V. History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire, A. D. 476.
GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ITALY.
HISTORY OF ROME.
RECAPITULATION.
Religion of Rome.
II. The Roman Republic.
RECAPITULATION.
The Laws of the Twelve Tables.
Capture of Rome by the Gauls.
Second Period, B. C. 343-264.
Third Period, B. C. 264-133.
Fourth Period, B. C. 133-30.
III. The Roman Empire.
RECAPITULATION.
Decline of the Empire.
Second Period, A. D. 193-284.
Third Period, A. D. 284-395.
Extinction of Paganism.
Fourth Period, A. D. 395-476.
QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW. Book V.
LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
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