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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ers when it tells us that Abraham, in hisyouthful days before God called him to the promised land, haddwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, Chaldees being another namefor all the peoples of the land of Babylonia. The city of Ur had existed from very ancient days, but itonly became the chief city of Babylonia under the rule of Ur-gur. He was not onlj^ a conqueror but a mighty builder, great-est indeed of all the early city builders. The ancient inscrip-tions which we have rediscovered tell us that he upraised Urhigh as heaven. That is, he erected huge platforms or foun-dations of solid brick to lift his buildings safe above the annualrise of the Euphrates which flooded all the region. On thesetremendous substructures he raised temples, palaces, and,chief work of all, the stupendous walls of Ur, from whose sum-mit men looked like Pygmies. These walls made his city safefrom any method of attack which his age had devised. So hispeople dwelt in safety and were rulers over all the surroundingcities.
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1-7 Used by permission from KidpaUis history of the World. Babylonia—The First Reformer i 3 tors over these. There were slavery, and forced labor, and grinding oppressionof the laborer. There were secret theft and open robbery, theft of sheep, ofasses, of fish from private fish-ponds, and of water from artificial wells. Therewere rules for divorce, the principal of which was that those who sought toescape the marriage pledge must pay a substantial fee to the temple of the citysgod. There was a priesthood of various ranks, among them being di\inerswho were in much request as foretellers of the future, and were heard with fargreater faith than their successors of today. There were also long and carefullybuilt canals, and it was already a kingly du ty to keep these in repair. Unhappily for Uru-ka-gina, he met the fate of most reformers. In seekingto rescue his people from suftering he plunged them into disaster. He musthave aHenated, possibly he exterminated, the host of aristocrats wh

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