Ancient States and Empires / For Colleges and Schools
by John Lord
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Chapters (52)
- 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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