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Identifier: storyofgreatestn01elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f the thought, the culture, the civilization which was there created and spread abroad. The city of Babylon became the centre of trade not only of Babylonia but of all western Asia, the centre and the nucleus of all wealth. The conquests made by Babylon brought to her the products and the slaves of every land. Merchants journeyed to her from afar. She was the melting pot of old, wherein all nations mingled and each gave its best. Hammurabi also made his city the religious centre of the land. He destroyed the older shrines, and declared Babylons god, Marduk or Baal-Merodach, to be the greatest of all the gods. Gradually the other cities of Babylonia accepted this belief. Much of the religious thought of Babylon was adopted by the Hebrews, and traces of it have thus been enshrined forever in the Christian Bible. Babylon became not only the London, the chief market of the ancient world, but also its Rome, its venerated religious shrine, and then its Paris, the home of all its fashion and its art.
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Babylonia—Sargon the Conqueror 17 What Sargon actually did was to establish a Semitic dominion over all the cities of Sumer. He was not born a king, but won his own way, as the earlier conqueror Lugal-zag-gisi had done, to the leadership of the tribes of the north. Then in the upper Euphrates valley, a hundred miles above Nippur, not far from the site of Babylon, he built himself a splendid city, Accad. This remained for a time the capital of his successors; and from this gorgeous city the whole northern land once known as the land of Kish became to later ages the land of Accad. Having established his authority over both Sumer and Accad, Sargon set forth, as Lugal-zag-gisi had, upon a series of journeys in search of further victories. He reduced to subjection those ever-troublesome highlanders of Elam, and burned Susa, their capital. He fought the wild tribes of the mountains around the sources of the Euphrates; and if he could scarcely be said to conquer them, he at least put them to flight. H

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