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Title: Outlines of European history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936 Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935, joint author Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948, joint author
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Publisher: Boston : Ginn
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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Western Asia: Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea 57 back against the northern mountains. The end of the westernwing is Palestine, Assyria makes up a large part of the center,while the end of the eastern wing is Babylonia. This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the The desert-fertile crescent.^ It may also be likened to the shores of a ^^desert-bay, upon which the mountains behind look down — abay, not of water but of sandy waste, some five hundred milesacross, forming a northern extension of the Arabian desert, andsweeping as far north as the latitude of the northeast corner ofthe Mediterranean. After the meager winter rains much of thenorthern desert-bay is clothed with scanty grass, and spring thusturns the region for a short time into grasslands. Much of thehistory of western Asia may be described as an age-long strugglebetween the mountain peoples of the north and the desert wan- derers of these grasslands — a struggle which is still going on —for the possessi

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