A student's study-guide in ancient history; a combination of outlines, map work and questions to aid in visualizing, understanding and remembering the important facts of ancient history and in (14801700283)

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Title: A student's study-guide in ancient history; a combination of outlines, map work and questions to aid in visualizing, understanding and remembering the important facts of ancient history and in grasping a sense of the modern world's debt to the peoples of ancient times
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Southworth, Gertrude Van Duyn, b. 1874
Subjects: History, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Iroquois publishing company, inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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34 THE ORIENTAL NATIONS The Tigris-Euphrates Valley The New Babylonian Empire 606 B. C—538 B. C. MAP WORK Locate and name the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Enclose and name the two empires that followed the fall of the Assyrianempire. Locate and name Nineveh, Babylon, Jerusalem. QUESTIONS 1. What two peoples overthrew the Assyr- 4. Tell about the arts and sciences whichian empire? they practiced. 2. Give an account of the reign of Nebu-chadnezzar, including his conquests and .3. Give a reason why the Babylonianspublic works. specially cultivated the study of astron-omy. o. Tell about the classes of people in theNew Babylonian empire. Describe their industries. (i- Tell about their religion and literature. WHAT THE TIGRIS-EUPHRATES VALLEY GAVETO CIVILIZATION The division of the year into months, weeks, days, hours andminutes. The sundial, to tell the time during the day, and the water clock,to show the hours at night. The use of measures for length, weight and capacity.
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THE ORIENTAL NATIONS SyriaThe Phoenicians MAP WORK Outline and name the land known as Syria. Outline and name Phoenicia, and locate and name the cities of Tyre andSidon. By use of dotted lines show the sea routes the Phoenicians sailed, and markthe locations where they founded colonies. Locate and name Carthage and Gades. QUESTIONS 1. Describe ancient Plioenioia. 2. What influence did the position andcharacter of the country have on theindustries of the people? 3. To what race did the Phoenicians belong? 4. Give an account of the Phoenicians as tonavigators, traders and manufacturers. What important services to primitivecivilization were rendered by thePhoenicians ? G. Name, in order, the people to whomthe Phoenicians were subject duringthe last centuries of their existence. WHAT THE PHCENICIANS DID FOR CIVILIZATION Taught the Greeks the use of an alphabet upon which the alphabetsof today are based. Traveled widely and carried with them the learning of Egypt andBabylonia.

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The fall of Nineveh was the destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh in 612 BCE. Nineveh was the capital of the powerful Assyrian Empire, which dominated the ancient Near East for several centuries. However, after a series of military defeats, the city was sacked and destroyed by a coalition of Babylonian, Median, and Scythian forces. The fall of Nineveh marked the end of the Assyrian Empire and was a major turning point in the history of the ancient Near East. The event is described in the Bible in the book of Nahum, and it continues to be the subject of historical and archaeological research.