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Title: Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924
Subjects: Zoroastrianism Iran -- History Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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VIIL LYDIA AND ASIA MINOR—THE ISALANCE OF POWER IN THE EAST, 1. A GLANCE at the map shows that the doom ofJudah and the other Syrian states was inevitable.Their position made it a necessity for whoever ruledill Mesopotamia to take and to hold them. Theyreally were part and parcel of the Assyrian inheri-trfnce, and when the founders o( a Chaldean mon-archy at Babylon entered into that inheritance, itwas but natural that the) should reach out for theseashore and keep a heavy masters hand on allthat lay between. The case was different withsuch countries as were separated by natural barriersfrom what may be called the Semitic and Canaaniticregion—such as lay in and beyond the highlands ofTaurus and Nairi, i.e., in Asia Minor and the moun-tain land between the Black and Caspian seas. 2. Of these countries some had been only partlysubject to Assyria, like the kingdom of Van and theother principalities of Urartu on one hand, Ciliciaand Cappadocia on the other, while some had neverbeen su

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