Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and SchoolsLord, John
History
Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and Schools
Lord, John
History, Ancient
Ancient States and Empires
For Colleges And Schools
By
John Lord LL.D.
Author of the “Old Roman World”
“Modern History” &c.
New York
Charles Scribner & Company
1869
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.
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