Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as, after an existence of five centuries, overthrown (a.d. 226)by a revolt of the Persians, and the New Persian, or Sassanian monarchyestablished. This empire lasted till the country was overrun by the Saracensin the seventh century A.D. 2 The explosions which so terrified the workmen of Julian are supposed tohave been caused by accumulations of gases — similar to those that so fre-quently occasion accidents in mines — in the subterranean chambers of theTemple foundations. VALENTINIAN AND VALENS. 335 new faith; for the purity of its teachings, the universal and eternalcharacter of its moral precepts, had given it a name to live.Equally in vain were his efforts to restore the worship of the oldGrecian and Roman divinities. Polytheism was a transitional formof religious belief which the world had now outgrown : Great Panwas dead. The disabilities under which Juhan had placed the Christianswere removed by his successor Jovian (a.d. 363-4), and theChristian worship was re-established.
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GERMANS CROSSING THE RHINE. (Drawing by Alphonse de Neuville.) Valentinian and Valens.—Upon the death of Jovian, Valen-tinian, the commander of the imperial guard, was elected emperorby a council of the generals of the army and the ministers of thecourt. He appointed his brother Valens as his associate in office,and assigned to him the Eastern provinces, while reserving for him-self the Western. He set up his own court at Milan, while Jiisbrother established his residence at Constantinople. The Movements of the Barbarians.—The reigns of Valen-tinian and Valens were signalized by threatening movements of 336 DECLINE AND FALL OF THE EMPIRE. the barbarian tribes, that now, ahuost at the same moment, beganto press with redoubled energy against all the barriers of the em-pire. The Alemanni (Germans) crossed the Rhine — sometimesswarming over the river on the winters ice — and, before pursuitcould be made, escaped with their booty into the depths of theGerman forests. The Saxons, pi

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