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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Greece—Contrast of East and West 271 great Gothic leader who destroyed Rome, invaded their land in 396 a.d. andwas received, not with iron, but with gold. Everywhere he collected an enor-mous tribute. He penetrated as far as Athens itself, and her citizens flockedaround him like obsequious slaves, welcoming him as a conqueror and payinghim a huge ransom for their lives and city. Mainly, however, the barbarian invasions passed by these Eastern lands,and the Byzantine emperors managed to keep some shadow of power, fillingtheir armies not with their own subjects, but with small wandering tribes ofthe barbarians, who were quite as ready to fight on one side as another. In another story you will be told how, during all these years. WesternEurope was passing through the destruction and the rebuilding of the MiddleAges, until it emerged with the new civilization of to-day. Meanwhile thisGreek empire retained the old civilization, which had come down throughGreece, Persia, Babylon, and Egyp

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