The History of Ancient Europe: With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa. In a Series of Letters to a Young Nobleman, Volume 1H. Maxwell, Columbia-house, 1801 - Europe |
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... Egypt , India , and China ; for the two latter countries were very distant from the scene of dispersion , and the former separated from it by almost impassable deserts . 2. This appears evident from many passages in the writings of ...
... Egypt , India , and China ; for the two latter countries were very distant from the scene of dispersion , and the former separated from it by almost impassable deserts . 2. This appears evident from many passages in the writings of ...
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... Egypt , countries abounding in spontaneous productions proper for the food of man , and of easy culture , more early populous and civilized than any other regions intimately known to the ancient inhabitants of our division of the earth ...
... Egypt , countries abounding in spontaneous productions proper for the food of man , and of easy culture , more early populous and civilized than any other regions intimately known to the ancient inhabitants of our division of the earth ...
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... Egypt . The Assyrians , who possessed the fertile banks of the Euphrates and Tigris , and the fat and extensive plain between these two rivers , anciently known by the name of Mesopotamia , had many inducements to in- dulge the social ...
... Egypt . The Assyrians , who possessed the fertile banks of the Euphrates and Tigris , and the fat and extensive plain between these two rivers , anciently known by the name of Mesopotamia , had many inducements to in- dulge the social ...
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... , that such opinion was imbibed after the intercourse between Egypt and Assyria was opened , in consequence of the conquest of both countries by the Persians . lization I lization of Assyria , and partly to the nature 16 THE HISTORY OF.
... , that such opinion was imbibed after the intercourse between Egypt and Assyria was opened , in consequence of the conquest of both countries by the Persians . lization I lization of Assyria , and partly to the nature 16 THE HISTORY OF.
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... Egypt , and conquered Ethiopia , if we may credit her historian45 . And having overawed the tributary princes , by the number and valour of her troops , as well as by the vigour of her administration , she was encouraged , we are told ...
... Egypt , and conquered Ethiopia , if we may credit her historian45 . And having overawed the tributary princes , by the number and valour of her troops , as well as by the vigour of her administration , she was encouraged , we are told ...
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