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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Egypt—The Twelfth Dynasty Restores Peace i 15 turies of darkness and feudalism from the renaissance which began under thetwelfth dynasty and led on as in Europe, though only after a period of sufferingand shame, to the splendor and world victory of the eighteenth and nineteenthdynasties. These we can compare to our modern days. The ruler who secured a firm hold over the lesser princes and started thetwelfth dynasty was Amenemhat 1. How he won the throne, we do not know;but of the happy changes which his strong rule caused he tells in his own in-scriptions: Perpetual fighting was no longer witnessed, whereas before mycoming they fought together as bulls heedless of yesterday, and no mans wel-fare was safe whether he was ignorant or learned. In another place he says:I spread joy throughout the country, even to the marshes of the delta. Atmy prayer the Nile granted its overflow to the field. No man was hungryunder me; no man thirsted with desire; for everywhere man obeyed my com-mands,

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