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Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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THE PERSIANS, 437 great Aclisemenian and Sassanian empires, the rule of Alexander andhis successors, the Parthian empire, the Eastern caliphate, the The greatMogul domination, the modern empire, include a great variety monaxcHies.^of dramatic incident, and belong to important periods and movementsof the worlds history. It is manifestly impossible even to sketch thesegieat monarchies here. The authentic history of Persia begins with a period of domination
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PKliSIAN DEKVXSII. by rulers issuing from the high lands of Media, north of Persia proper.Their capital was Ecbatana (now Hamadan). Deioces is the The Medianfirst king of whom we have any certainty ; he reigned at the i^i&do™-end of the eighth and well into the seventh century B.C. His sonPhaortes appears to have extended his sway over Persia proper, but wasslain in attacking Nineveh. His son Cyaxares, at the end of the seventhcentury, raised the empire to great power, being successful bothagainst the Assyrians and the Scythians, and carrying his arms into 438 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. Armenia and Cappadocia, which he subjugated by the aid of an opportunetotal echpse on the 28th of May, B.C. 585. This Median empire attained a considerable degree ot civilisation,such indeed as to impress its institutions, both political and military, uponTheconqueststhe succeeding Persian empire. Already the Zoroastrian re- of Cyrus, ligion was probably adopted as the state religion, for the Magi,

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Civilization
  • booksubject:Culture
  • bookpublisher:London_Ward__Lock
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