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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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ay all who refused to believe as they did. The Greeks re-mained steadfast on this one point. The bulk of them would not change theirreligion; and the Turks grew to hate their Christian victims with implacableintensity. More than once they meditated exterminating the entire race, evenas to-day they seem bent on destroying the Christians in Armenia. They onlyhesitated because the Greeks were useful to them in many ways. Enormoustaxes were exacted from the im.poverished people; they were used as slaves atwill; and, crudest of all, every year a thousand of their fairest and sturdiestbabies were picked from among them and brought up as Mahometans. Thegirls were placed in Turkish harems; the boys, knowing nothing of theirparentage, were trained to become members of the famous band of soldiers, theJanissaries, the bulwark of the Turkish Empire. Venice, Hungary, and other Christian nations continued fighting againstthe Turks for centuries, and prevented the further advance of their power into
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Greece—Destruction of the Parthenon 275 Europe. It was in a siege of Athens by the Venetians in 1687, that the peer-less Parthenon of Pericles, which had outlived so many scenes of violence,was reduced to ruins. The Turks used it as a magazine for powder, which wasexploded by a Venetian bomb, and the beautiful building, with its exquisitestatues and carvings, was blown to fragments.

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