




                        Ancient States and Empires

                         For Colleges And Schools

                                    By

                             John Lord LL.D.

                     Author of the "Old Roman World"

                           "Modern History" &c.

                                 New York

                        Charles Scribner & Company

                                   1869





CONTENTS


PREFACE.
BOOK I. ANCIENT ORIENTAL NATIONS.
   CHAPTER I. THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.
   CHAPTER II. POSTDILUVIAN HISTORY TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM.--THE
   PATRIARCHAL CONSTITUTION, AND THE DIVISION OF NATIONS.
   CHAPTER III. THE HEBREW RACE FROM ABRAHAM TO THE SALE OF JOSEPH.
   CHAPTER IV. EGYPT AND THE PHARAOHS.
   CHAPTER V. THE JEWS UNTIL THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN.
   CHAPTER VI. THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM
   OF DAVID.
   CHAPTER VII. THE JEWISH MONARCHY.
   CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN MONARCHIES.
   CHAPTER IX. THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
   CHAPTER X. ASIA MINOR AND PHOENICIA.
   CHAPTER XI. JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY TO THE BIRTH
   OF CHRIST.--THE HIGH PRIESTS AND THE ASMONEAN AND IDUMEAN KINGS.
   CHAPTER XII. THE ROMAN GOVERNORS.
BOOK II. THE GRECIAN STATES.
   CHAPTER XIII. THE GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ITS EARLY
   INHABITANTS.
   CHAPTER XIV. THE LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE.
   CHAPTER XV. THE GRECIAN STATES AND COLONIES TO THE PERSIAN WARS.
   CHAPTER XVI. GRECIAN CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS.
   CHAPTER XVII. THE PERSIAN WAR.
   CHAPTER XVIII. THE AGE OF PERICLES.
   CHAPTER XIX. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
   CHAPTER XX. MARCH OF CYRUS AND RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS.
   CHAPTER XXI. THE LACEDAEMONIAN EMPIRE.
   CHAPTER XXII. THE REPUBLIC OF THEBES.
   CHAPTER XXIII. DIONYSIUS AND SICILY.
   CHAPTER XXIV. PHILIP OF MACEDON.
   CHAPTER XXV. ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
BOOK III. THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
   CHAPTER XXVI. ROME IN ITS INFANCY, UNDER KINGS.
   CHAPTER XXVII. THE ROMAN REPUBLIC TILL THE INVASION OF THE GAULS.
   CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CONQUEST OF ITALY.
   CHAPTER XXIX. THE FIRST PUNIC WAR.
   CHAPTER XXX. THE SECOND PUNIC OR HANNIBALIC WAR.
   CHAPTER XXXI. THE MACEDONIAN AND ASIATIC WARS.
   CHAPTER XXXII. THE THIRD PUNIC WAR.
   CHAPTER XXXIII. ROMAN CONQUESTS FROM THE FALL OF CARTHAGE TO THE TIMES
   OF THE GRACCHI.
   CHAPTER XXXIV. ROMAN CIVILIZATION AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD PUNIC WAR,
   AND THE FALL OF GREECE.
   CHAPTER XXXV. THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI.
   CHAPTER XXXVI. THE WARS WITH JUGURTHA AND THE CIMBRI.--MARIUS.
   CHAPTER XXXVII. THE REVOLT OF ITALY, AND THE SOCIAL WAR.--MARIUS AND
   SULLA.
   CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE MITHRIDATIC AND CIVIL WARS.--MARIUS AND SULLA.
   CHAPTER XXXIX. ROME FROM THE DEATH OF SULLA TO THE GREAT CIVIL WARS OF
   CAESAR AND POMPEY.--CICERO, POMPEY, AND CAESAR.
   CHAPTER XL. THE CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CAESAR AND POMPEY.
   CHAPTER XLI. THE CIVIL WARS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF
   CAESAR.--ANTONIUS.--AUGUSTUS.
   CHAPTER XLII. THE ROMAN EMPIRE ON THE ACCESSION OF AUGUSTUS.
   CHAPTER XLIII. THE SIX CAESARS OF THE JULIAN LINE.
   CHAPTER XLIV. THE CLIMAX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
   CHAPTER XLV. THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE.
   CHAPTER XLVI. THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE.
Advertisements.
Footnotes






PREFACE.


This work is designed chiefly for educational purposes, since there is
still felt the need of some book, which, within moderate limits, shall
give a connected history of the ancient world.

The author lays no claim to original investigation in so broad a field. He
simply has aimed to present the salient points--the most important events
and characters of four thousand years, in a connected narrative, without
theories or comments, and without encumbering the book with details of
comparatively little interest. Most of the ancient histories for schools,
have omitted to notice those great movements to which the Scriptures
refer; but these are here briefly presented, since their connection with
the Oriental world is intimate and impressive, and ought not to be
omitted, even on secular grounds. What is history without a Divine
Providence?

In the preparation of this work, the author has been contented with the
last standard authorities, which he has merely simplified, abridged, and
condensed, being most indebted to Rawlinson, Grote, Thirlwall, Niebuhr,
Mommsen, and Merivale,--following out the general plan of Philip Smith,
whose admirable digest, in three large octavos, is too extensive for
schools.

Although the author has felt warranted in making a free use of his
materials, it will be seen that the style, arrangement, and reflections
are his own. If the book prove useful, his object