THE SEVEN GREAT MONARCHIES
OF THE ANCIENT EASTERN WORLD; OR, THE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND ANTIQUITIES OF CHALDAEA, ASSYRIA BABYLON, MEDIA, PERSIA, PARTHIA, AND SASSANIAN, OR NEW PERSIAN EMPIRE. BY GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A., CAMDEN PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES.
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CONTENTS
PREFACE TO FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES.
PREFACE TO THE SIXTH MONARCHY.
CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER II. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS
CHAPTER III. THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE AND WRITING
CHAPTER V. ARTS AND SCIENCES
CHAPTER VI. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
CHAPTER VII. RELIGION
CHAPTER VIII. HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY
List of Illustrations
1. Plan of Mugheir ruins (after Taylor)
2. Ruins of Warka (Erech) (after Loftus)
3. Akkerkuf (after Ker Porter)
4. Hamman (after Loftus)
5. Tel-Ede (ditto)
6. Palms (after Oppert)
7. Chaldaean reeds, from an Assyrian sculpture (after Layard)
8. Wild sow and pigs, from Koyunjik (Layard)
9. Ethiopians (after Prichard)
10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum)
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