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The Ancient World By I. Tenen, M.A. Contents: Scan / Edit Notes Cover Picture (Front) Preface Maps Chapter One - Prehistoric Times A. The Old Stone Age Exercises B. The New Stone Age Exercises C. The Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age Exercises Chapter Two - The Egyptians, The Babylonians, The Cretans, The Hittites A. The Early Egyptians B. The Early Babylonians C. The Cretans D. The Hittites Exercises Chapter Three - The Egyptian Empire A. The Conquering Pharaohs B. Life and Death in Ancient Egypt Exercises Chapter Four - The Rise And Fall Of Israel A. The Early Hebrews, the Philistines and the Phoenicians Exercises B. Assyria, New Babylon, and the Fall of Jerusalem C. The Persians Exercises Chapter Five - Hellas A. The Revolt of Ionia B. The Cities of the Hellenes C. The Persian Wars and After Exercises D. The Greek Spirit Exercises Chapter Six - The Roman Republic A. The City on Seven Hills B. S.P.Q.R C. "See to it, Romans, every head is bowed," D. "Ill fares the Land E. Gaius Julius Caesar Exercises Chapter Seven - The Roman Emperors A. Rome under the Caesars B. The First Christians C. "All Roads lead to Rome," D. The Huns and the Goths Exercises Index (Removed) Scan / Edit Notes Quite a remarkable book that gives a concise but good picture of history from the dawn of time up to the Roman Empire. This book was extremely hard to scan (so expect a few errors) due to the small print in parts, and the vast amount of pictures (which were scanned separately) but it was well worth the effort. The text version (v 1.0) has the usual picture placement note, while the html version (v 1.5) has the pictures embedded as they appear in the book (as closely as I can get it). Both versions should be included within this zip. Size: Approx xxx (zipped) Format: v1.0 (Text) Format: v1.5 (HTML) Genera: (History) Extra's: Pictures Included Copyright: 1959 Scanned: March 22 2002 Posted to: alt.binaries.e-book (Mar 23 2002) Structure: (Folder and Sub Folders) {Main Folder} - HTML Files | |- {Nav} - Navigation Files | |- {Pic} - Pictures | |- {Text} - Text File Enjoy. Kind Regards -Salmun. Preface The history syllabus of secondary schools is at present being revised. What changes, if any, will result from that revision one cannot tell. But it is safe to assume that Ancient History, in its widest scope, will still have its place in post-primary education. Some idea of how Man rose to the first civilisations, some knowledge of the great personalities and empires of antiquity, an acquaintance with the historical background of the Bible,—these must surely be provided by any liberal system of education. Yet a growing number of teachers would prefer not to devote a whole school year to such a course. This book aims at providing a reasonably complete review of the Ancient World in a term and a half's work. After the first chapter, the book is built on a framework of continuous narrative, not too massive or depressing, it is hoped. Every opportunity has been taken to introduce variety through social and economic history and biography. If one is to deal at all with the rise and fall of the ancient empires, political and military history cannot be avoided, though an effort has been made to provide the minimum only. Nor is it altogether desirable that even younger pupils should completely escape the discipline of hard fact, especially as many of them take a positive pleasure in mastering the baldest, bleakest information. The frequent dates supplied are not intended to be learned off, but to help in the formation of a time sequence. The maps, however, should be in constant use. Teachers should insist on pupils knowing precisely where every place mentioned is situated. Not only will this help to make the narrative much more intelligible, and so less of a burden to the memory, but a respect for accurate information will be developed, which is surely one of the marks of an educated mind. A good deal of trouble has been taken to supply illustrations which shall not only stimulate interest, but provide information. In some cases the text is directly based on them. It would encourage the valuable habit of careful observation if pupils were asked to describe or even reproduce some of these in detail. It will be obvious that the exercises provided at intervals are not meant to test knowledge of the text. They serve a variety of other purposes,—to stimulate interest, to encourage individual research, and to put pupils on the track of stories and information it was not practicable to include in the text. Bright pupils who have access to a good library may be left to hunt for themselves. Those less fortunate will need clues. Teachers who wish to extend the course over three terms could do so easily by devising additional exercises of this type. Some of them are more obviously in the nature of intelligence tests. The complaint is sometimes heard that History particularly lends itself to "cramming." If exercises are frequently set, the successful "crammer" will be relegated to his proper place in the scheme of things. I wish to thank my colleague Mr. D.G. Richards, the illustration staff of Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., my friend Mr. Harold Bower, and Mrs. C. Tenen for their valuable assistance. I. TENEN. September, 1935. This edition includes the most recent theory as to the arrangement of the oarsmen in the trireme. I. TENEN. May, 1944. Maps The Ancient World, showing the Fertile Crescent Egypt Syria and Palestine The Persian Empire Hellas Greek Colonies East Central Greece Rome The Neighbours of the Early Romans The Roman Empire Time Diagrams Prehistoric Ages in Europe The Earliest Civilisations Israel, Assyria and Chaldea Persia, Greece and Early Rome The Roman Empire The Ancient World Chapter One - Prehistoric Times Cave-Painting Of A Bison - It is about five feet long. A. The Old Stone Age History really begins when men were civilised enough to set down a record of their actions by cutting marks in clay and stone, or by writing on paper and parchment. They first began to do this about six thousand years ago, and we find them in these records already living in great cities, masters of arts and crafts, and divided into humbly- and nobly-born, poor and rich, all subjects of powerful kings. But perhaps you will be curious enough to ask whether we know anything about men's lives before written History begins. Yes, we know something about that too, and our knowledge is the result of much clever and patient study of the remains left by those very, very distant ancestors of ours, such as their own bones, the bones of the animals they hunted or tended, bits of their pottery or clothing, and, perhaps the most interesting of all, the wonderful drawings which they scratched on bones or painted on cave walls. The study of pre-historic man is by no means complete yet, but we can at least take a few glimpses at the long, long ago. The first glimpse shows us the earth as it was from thirty to twenty thousand years ago, and you will hardly want to go further back than that! The oceans and continents had not yet taken the shapes that we know to-day. The land masses were less broken up by seas. The climate of Europe in those far-off days varied in a mysterious way. Reindeer And Salmon, Cut On A Piece Of Stag's Horn For centuries it would be much hotter than it is to-day, then a long period of cold weather would set in, there would be endless snow-storms, till a thick sheet of ice covered the "top" half of our hemisphere, and even seas froze. Men would slowly retreat south before the advancing, pale-blue ice-wall, till a milder age returned. Under such conditions Man made little progress for thousands of years. You can think of the people of the early Old Stone Age, as it is called, as squat and hairy, with long, powerful arms and short, thick legs. They have low foreheads with a ridge over the eyes, chins that slope backwards, flat, broad noses and long, thick lips that barely cover their enormous teeth. Man Of Early Old Stone Age Making Flint Implement. If they wear anything at all, it will be some animal's hide. While the women perhaps look for roots and berries, eggs or shell-fish worth eating, the men spend a good deal of their time hunting—for that is the main source of their food—various types of hairy elephant and rhinoceros, hippopotamus, the huge saber- toothed tiger, the boar, reindeer, bison and elk. At first their weapons were stone or wooden clubs and stakes.
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