The History of the Ancient Civilizations
Egypt, Assyria, Phoenicia, Israel, Babylon, Lydia, Arians, Buddhists and Brahmans, The Medes and Persians…By Max Duncker
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"The History of the Ancient Civilizations" in 6 volumes is one of the best-known works by historian Max Duncker. The author's object in regard to the ancient East was not to retrace the beginning of human civilization, but rather to understand and establish the value and extent of those early phases of civilization to which the entire development of the human race goes back. The narrative embraces the independent civilizations of the ancient East which came to exercise a mutual influence on each other. First it follows the realm on the Nile and the kingdoms of Hither Asia as far as the point where the nations of Iran began to influence their destinies, and then it attempts to set forth the peculiar development of the Aryan tribes in the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges, down to the times of Tshandragupta and Asoka. Then follows the history of the Bactrians, the Medes, and the Persians, until the period when the nations of the table-land of Iran were united by Cyrus and Darius with the countries of Western Asia, when Aryan life and Aryan civilization gained the supremacy over the whole region from Ceylon to the Nile and the Hellespont. The forms of life at which the great empires of Asia had arrived are finally brought face to face with the more youthful civilization attained by the Hellenes in their mountain cantons. This new development is followed down to the first great shock when East and West met in conflict, and the Achaemenids sought to crush the Hellenes under the weight of Asia. With the failure of this attempt "The History of Antiquity" concludes.
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Table of contents
1The History of the Ancient Civilizations
59LYDIA UNDER THE MERMNADÆ.
2TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
60Volume 4
3BOOK I.
61THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.
4EGYPT.
62THE ARYAS ON THE INDUS.
5THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.
63THE CONQUEST OF THE LAND OF THE GANGES.
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6THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CIVILISATION IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.
64THE FORMATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE ORDERS.
7THE RELIGION OF THE EGYPTIANS.
65THE OLD AND THE NEW RELIGION.
8THE KINGDOM OF MEMPHIS.
66THE CONSTITUTION AND LAW OF THE INDIANS.
9THE HYKSOS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM.
67THE CASTES AND THE FAMILY.
10THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.
68THE THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE BRAHMANS.
11THE MONUMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF RAMSES.
69BOOK VI.
12LIFE AND MANNERS OF THE EGYPTIANS.
70BUDDHISTS AND BRAHMANS.
13BOOK II.
71THE STATES ON THE GANGES IN THE SIXTH CENTURY B.C.
14THE SEMITIC NATIONS.
72BUDDHA'S LIFE AND TEACHING.
15THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
73THE KINGDOM OF MAGADHA AND THE SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH.
16THE RELIGION AND SCIENCE OF THE CHALDÆANS.
74THE NATIONS AND PRINCES OF THE LAND OF THE INDUS.
17THE ART AND TRADE OF BABYLONIA.
75POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE INDIANS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY B.C.
18THE ARABS.
76CHANDRAGUPTA OF MAGADHA.
19THE CANAANITES.
77THE RELIGION OF THE BUDDHISTS.
20THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE CANAANITES.
78THE REFORMS OF THE BRAHMANS.
21THE ORIGIN AND DESCENT OF THE HEBREWS.
79AÇOKA OF MAGADHA.
22THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT.
80RETROSPECT.
23THE LIBERATION OF THE HEBREWS.
81BOOK VII.
24THE HEBREWS IN THE DESERT.
82THE ARIANS OF EASTERN IRAN.
25THE HEBREW INVASION OF CANAAN.
83THE LAND AND THE TRIBES.
26THE NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR.
84THE KINGDOM OF THE BACTRIANS.
27Volume 2
85THE SCRIPTURES OF IRAN.[76]
28THE STORY OF NINUS AND SEMIRAMIS.
86ZARATHRUSTRA AND THE DATE OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE AVESTA.[118]
29THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ASSYRIAN KINGDOM.
87THE GODS OF THE ARIANS IN IRAN.
30THE NAVIGATION AND COLONIES OF THE PHENICIANS.
88THE REFORM OF THE FAITH.
31THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
89THE DOCTRINE OF THE AVESTA.
32THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY IN ISRAEL.
90THE PRIESTHOOD OF IRAN
33DAVID'S STRUGGLE AGAINST SAUL AND ISHBOSHETH.
91THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS.
34THE RULE OF DAVID.
92THE LATER DEVELOPMENT OF EASTERN IRAN.
35KING SOLOMON.
93BOOK VIII.
36THE LAW OF THE PRIESTS.
94THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
37JUDAH AND ISRAEL.
95THE FOUNDATION OF THE MEDIAN KINGDOM.
38THE CITIES OF THE PHENICIANS.
96THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES.
39THE TRADE OF THE PHENICIANS.
97THE TRIBES OF THE PERSIANS.
40THE RISE OF ASSYRIA.
98THE FALL OF THE MEDIAN KINGDOM.
41Volume 3
99THE RISE OF THE PERSIAN KINGDOM.
42THE CAMPAIGNS OF TIGLATH PILESAR II.
100BOOK VIII. (CONTINUED.)
43THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL.
101THE EMPIRE OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS.
44THE PHARAOHS OF TANIS, BUBASTIS, AND NAPATA.
102THE FALL OF THE LYDIAN EMPIRE.
45THE FIRST COLLISION OF ASSYRIA AND EGYPT.
103THE SUBJUGATION OF ASIA MINOR.
46ASSYRIA IN THE REIGNS OF SARGON AND SENNACHERIB.
104THE FALL OF BABYLON.
47SENNACHERIB IN SYRIA.
105THE KINGDOM OF CYRUS.
48ESARHADDON.
106THE FALL OF EGYPT.
49ASSURBANIPAL'S WARS AND VICTORIES.
107THE MARCH TO MEROE.
50THE CONSTITUTION, ARMY, AND ART OF THE ASSYRIANS.
108THE DEATH OF CAMBYSES.
51JUDAH UNDER MANASSES AND JOSIAH.
109THE RISE OF DARIUS.
52THE NATIONS OF THE NORTH.
110THE REBELLIONS IN THE PROVINCES.
53THE FALL OF ASSYRIA.
111THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DARIUS ON THE INDUS AND THE DANUBE.
54EGYPT UNDER PSAMMETICHUS AND NECHO.
112THE CONQUESTS IN AFRICA AND EUROPE.
55THE RESTORATION OF BABYLON.
113THE STATE OF DARIUS.
56NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
114THE FINANCE AND ARMY OF DARIUS.
57EGYPT UNDER THE LAST PHARAOHS.
115THE COURT OF DARIUS.
58THE OVERTHROW OF THE HERACLEIDS IN LYDIA.
116RETROSPECT.
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