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History Of Egypt, Chaldĉa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery -L.W. King and H.R. Hall - Softcover
A passage from the book... The Median empire is the least known of all those which held sway for a time over the destinies of a portion of Western Asia. The reason of this is not to be ascribed to the shortness of its duration: the Chaldĉan empire of Nebuchadrezzar lasted for a period quite as brief, and yet the main outlines of its history can be established with some certainty in spite of large blanks and much obscurity. Whereas at Babylon, moreover, original documents abound, enabling us to put together, feature by feature, the picture of its ancient civilisation and of the chronology of its kings, we possess no contemporary monuments of Ecbatana to furnish direct information as to its history. To form any idea of the Median kings or their people, we are reduced to haphazard notices gleaned from the chroniclers of other lands, retailing a few isolated facts, anecdotes, legends, and conjectures, and, as these materials reach us through the medium of the Babylonians or the Greeks of the fifth or sixth century B.C., the picture which we endeavour to compose from them is always imperfect or out of perspective. We seemingly catch glimpses of ostentatious luxury, of a political and military organisation, and a method of government analogous to that which prevailed at later periods among the Persians, but more imperfect, ruder, and nearer to barbarism-a Persia, in fact, in the rudimentary stage, with its ruling spirit and essential characteristics as yet undeveloped.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1449927203
- ISBN 13 9781449927202
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages126
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