




                        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.