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Title: History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Second Century of Peace 261 if we could have visited it nearly two thousand years ago. Thelittle city of Pompeii, covered with volcanic ashes in the briefreign of Titus (a.d. 79), still shows us the very streets and houses,the forum and the public buildings, the shops and the markets,and a host of other things, mirroring the very life of the peopleof this town as it was in the days when they were suddenly over-whelmed by the eruption of the volcano of Vesuvius (Fig. 68).^Pompeii was close beside the Greek cities of southern Italy, andwe at once discover that the place was essentially Hellenistic inits life and art. 1 405. Improved Means of Intercourse. In some matters therehad been great progress. This was especially true of intercourseand rapid communication. Everywhere the magnificent Romanroads, massively paved with smooth stone, like a town street, ledstraight over the hills and across the rivers by imposing bridges.Some of these bridges still stand and are in use to-day (Fig.

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