The Ancient History Of The East From The Earliest Times To The Conquest By Alexander The Great Including Egypt Assyria Babylonia Media Persia Asia Minor And Phoenicia

Excerpt from The Ancient History of the East: From the Earliest Times to the Conquest by Alexander the Great; Including Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Media, Persia, Asia Minor, and Phoenicia As to the former, there is more agreement. Nearly all in teipreters of Scriptuie place the cradle of the Postdiluvian race in the highlands 01 Asia; and, 11 hile some contend for the Alpine plateau of Little Bokhaia (the Belourtagli) as the Merou and Berezat 01 Albora of Indian and Persian tiadi the more general Opinion adheres to the mountains of Armenia. If the former is the more natural centre for the Aryan race, which took possession of Iran and Northern In dia, the latter (which prevalent tradition identifies with Ara rat) seems the appropriate starting-place for the peoples of Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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