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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910. Excerpt: ... THE FLOWER OF DESTINY IN the first years of the seventh century, the power and glory of the world were divided between the empires of Rome and Persia. Their frontiers met in a long line till they were separated, as by a wedge, by the barren land of Arabia, which neither Emperor had thought it worth his while to conquer, but in which already burned that spark which was soon to set the world on fire and to consume both their empires. At this moment the Romans, though unfortunate in war, rejoiced to own the sway of the one sovereign of the Eastern line who was both great and good, Heraclius. In Persia the time was most fortunate, for after the revolution and civil war which had torn the Empire asunder, in the time of his father Hormouz, and after he had himself been driven into exile, the Persians beheld, seated on the throne of Sassan, the great Chosroes, under whom Persia and the Sassanid dynasty attained the summit of their greatest glory. On a morning in the month of May of the year 619, the Shah in Shah, Chosroes, the great King of Persia, was holding his divan in his favourite residence, the wonderful palace of Artemita. The war with Rome was over. Chosroes had been restored to his throne by the Emperor Maurice, whom he thenceforth called his father; but the massacre by the monster Phocas of that good monarch and all his family had broken all his ties with the Romans, and though Heraclius had come as the avenger of Maurice, Chosroes had felt no hesitation in attacking and tearing from him his richest and fairest provinces. Victory had everywhere attended the Persian arms. Within two years the maps of the two empires were entirely changed, and Chosroes had taken from his rival Egypt, Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, and even Rhodes, and reconstructed the E...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151678554
- ISBN 13 9781151678553
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages52
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