The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world- or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire (1880) (14595282748)

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Title: The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient Assyria -- History Babylonia -- History Parthia -- History Iran -- History
Publisher: New York : J. W. Lovell company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Hunted Stag taking the Water (Koyunjik). cii. IX.) WARS OF SARGON. 439 to a position involving a greater or less degree of dependence.Tributary to the later Assyrian princes, and again, probably, toNebuchmlntzzai, she had scarcely recovered her independencewhen she fell under the dominion of Persia. Never successful,notwithstanding all her struggles, in thoroughly shaking offthis hated yoke, she did but exchange her Persian for Greekmasters, Avhen the empire of Cyrus perished. Since then,Greeks, Romans, Saracens, and Turks have, each in their turn,been masters of the Egyptian race, which has paid theusual penalty of precocity in the early exhaustion of itspowers. After the victories of Aroer and Raphia, the Assyrian mon-arch appears to have been engaged for some years in wars ofcomparatively slight interest towards the north and the north-east. It was not till B.C. 715, five jears after his first fight withthe Egyptians, that he again made an expedition towards thesouth-west, and so c