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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ucceed in breaking through the barriers that beset theircourse, and reach the Persian Gulf; * most of the othersfind no outlet, and their waters accumulate at the bottomof the valleys, in lakes whose areas vary at the different AchsBmenides was merely a very small part of the ancient Anzan (Anshan),viz. the district on the east and south-east of Kuh-i-Dena, which includes themodern towns of Yezdeshast, Abadeh, Yeklid, and Kushkiserd. 1 Herodotus imagined Carmania and Persia Proper to be one and thesame province; from the Alexandrine period onwards historians and geo-graphers drew a distinction between the two. 2 The form of the name varies in different writers. Strabo calls it theOroatis, Nearchus the Arosis; in Pliny it appears as Oratis and Zarotis, andin Ammianus Marcellinus as Oroates. 3 The Araxes is the modern Bendamir. The Kyros, which flowed pastPersepolis, is now the Pulwar, an affluent of the Bendamir. The Bagradasof Ptolemy, called the Hyperis by Juba, is the modern Nabend.
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SCENE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF IERSIA. Drawn by Boudier, from Ooste and Flanw.v, Voyngi en Perse, vol. i. pi. xcvi. THE MOUNTAINS OF PERSIA 285 seasons. The mountainous district is furrowed in alldirections by deep ravines, with almost vertical sides, atthe bottom of which streams and torrents follow a headlongcourse. The landscape wears a certain air of savagegrandeur; giant peaks rise in needle-like points per-pendicularly to the sky; mountain paths wind upward,cut into the sides of thesteep precipices; thechasms are spanned bysingle-arched bridges,so frail and narrow thatthey seem likely to beswept away in the firstgale that blows. Nocountry could presentgreater difficulties to themovements of a regulararmy or lend itself morereadily to a system ofguerrilla warfare. It was unequally divided between someten or twelve tribes: ^ chief among these were thePasargadse, from which the royal family took its origin;after them came the Maraphii and Maspii. The chiefsof these two tribes were elect

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