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Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Their rulers were Lysimachus, Seleu-
cus Nicator, Ptolemy, and Cassander, who had each assumed the
title of king. The great horn being broken, in its place came up
four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.<sup>3

1</sup> Perdiccas ruled as regent for Philip Arridaeus (an illegitimate brother of
Alexander), who was proclaimed titular king.
² Two of these lesser states, Rhodes and Pontus, deserve special notice: —
Rhodes.—Rhodes became the head of a maritime confederation of the cities
and islands along the coasts of Asia Minor, and thus laid the basis of a remarka-
ble commercial prosperity and naval power.
Pontus.—Pontus (Greek for sea), a state of Asia Minor, was so called
from its position upon the Euxine, It was never thoroughly conquered by the
Macedonians. It has a place in history mainly because of the lustre shed upon
it by the transcendent ability of one of its kings, Mithridates the Great (120-63
B.C.), who for a long time made successful resistance to the Roman arms.
³ Dan. viii. 8.
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KINGDOMS
of the
SUCCESSORS of ALEXANDER
C. B. C. 300.
Dominions of Ptolemy


THRACE AND SYRIA. 171

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