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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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r belt of Epirus and Thessaly,mountain-lands where they developed the sternand rugged temper, the love of war, and contemptof trade and crafts so generally characteristic ofhighlanders. Some time about looo B.C., there wasa great stir among them. Moved by awakening am-bition of conquest and power, perhaps also crowdedby their increasing numbers in their numerous butnarrow valleys, they began to descend southward,into the milder, more beautiful land by the sea.Where they passed, they appropriated the soil, en-slaving its former owners, who were now expectedto work it for the conquerors; in cities they estab-lished an iron rule, and wherever they met resist-ance, they waged war, even to extermination. Ittook this movement, known in history as TheDescent of the Dorians, about a hundred years toreach the Corinthian Isthmus, that short and narrowcauseway which alone prevents Peloponnesus frombeing an island, torn from the Greek mainland, asSicily is from that of Ital). They poured into the
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o _ o 206 MEDIA, DA BY 1.0 X, AND DEli SI A. peninsula through this entrance, and also in ships,across the long and narrow gulf, and there their ad-v^cnt produced the effect of a heavy body falling intoa vessel filled with liquid : there: is a splash, a spurt,and the licjuitl oxerflows on all sitlcs. There was nogetting rid of the Dorians, for the)- were no com-mon invaders. Their genius for war made themproceed after a uniform and systematic fashion thatcrushed resistance, while, being equally possessed ofthe qualities that organize governments and ensurethe duration of states, their watchfulness and energybaffled conspiracies and made popular risings hope-less. The ancient Achaean commonwealths andmore recent Ionian confederations of free cities hadbut one alternative before them : submission or self-banishment. Thousands of people, led by noblefamilies of oldest and most firmly established stand-ing, chose the latter—and the age of colonies began.Greek ships bore away detachment

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