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An Epitome of Universal History, From the Earliest Period to the Revolutions of 1848
An Epitome of Universal History From the Earliest Period to the Revolutions of 1848 Author:A. Harding General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans Subjects: History World history History, Ancient Europe History / General History / Ancient / General History / World Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 15 It was in Asia also that our blessed Saviour, the Lord of life and glory, condescended to put on humanity, to live a life of poverty, and to suffer an ignominious death to redeem man from sin: here also was manifested the descent of the Holy Ghost: here the Apostles laboured, martyrs suffered, and the Gospel won its widening way. So thoroughly is the history of Asia blended with the inspired writings of the Old and New Testaments, that a very short notice will be found sufficient for the young Christian, especially as the conquests made by Great Britain in the East are generally known and familiar. ASSYKIA. - This country is supposed to have been founded about 100 years after the Deluge by Nimrod, who is described as a mighty hunter. It was situated between the Black and Caspian seas, not far from the spot where the Garden of Eden is supposed to have stood, two of the rivers of which ran through it -- Euphrates and Tigris. The great and famous city of Babylon stood on the first of these, and on the latter the far-famed Nineveh, which was built by Semiramis, the wife and successor of Ninus, and the mother of Nynius. Assyria was a powerful and warlike country for nearly 1400 years, when at the death of Sardanapalus it was destroyed, and the three kingdoms of Media, Babylonia, and Nineveh founded on its ruins. chapter{Section 4 Thus ended the first great monarchy. Babylonia and Nineveh were united under Esarhaddon, until c...« less