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Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s statues of their gods, withbusts and vases, and with porches supported by splendidcolumns. In making beautiful things, whether of marbleor bronze, of silver or gold, or in painting lovely pictures,the Greeks have surpassed all other nations. The worldto-day bows down to them as the leaders in beautiful artand in the deep learning that we call philosophy. Bearing the Riches to Italy. — When the Romans con-quered Greece, they plundered the cities, and carried toItaly shiploads of beautiful things, — priceless statues andbusts of marble and bronze, adorned with gold, silver,and jewels; vases and urns beautifully carved, and all therich furniture of homes and temples. The Romans broughtalong many books written in the Greek language, and thou-sands of educated Greeks, whom they made their slaves. Pushing the Boundary Eastward. — Pompey, a greatRoman general, conquered the East, and made the far-offEuphrates River the eastern boundary of the Roman power. ROME CONQUERING THE WORLD 25
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26 DAWN OF AMERICAN fflSTORY IN EUROPE Upon his return to Rome he was given a grand triumphthrough the streets of the capital. In the procession wereseen the spoils of his campaign. Three hundred and twentyprinces walked as captives before the conquerors chariot.Banners were borne along which announced that Pompey had conquered twenty-one kings, taken a thou-sand forts, nine hundredtowns, eight hundredships, and subduedtwelve millions ofpeople. The Greatest of AllRomans. — Another Ro-man, JuHus Caesar, ledhis legions into Gaul andadded what are nowFrance and Spain toRoman territory. Caesarfound it very hard tosubdue that part of Gaulnear the English Chan-nel, because the Britonswere sending aid to theGauls. So Caesar deter-mined to punish theBritons for interfering.He crossed over intoBritain and won victories there, but he did not remainlong. Caesar was a great general, and his victories hadmade him famous. He returned to Rome, where he wasappointed to high office. He soon became a

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