Identifier: storyofancientna00west (find matches)
Title: The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Westermann, William Linn, 1873-1954
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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less than 200feet taller. Not far from thepyramid of Khufuis another workfrom the time ofthe Old Kingdom,the great stoneSphinx, with thehead of one of theancient pharaohsand the body of alion, which is thesymbol of the pha-raohs might. 21. What theEgyptians of theOld Kingdom Did for the World.— Ruins of the Great Temple of Ancient Thebes. When we make a summary of the knowledge attained by the ancient Egyptiansbefore the year 2100 b. c, we realize what great progress theyhad made toward the civilization of our own time. They livedunder an organized government which could give its citizenspeace and protection. They traded among themselves, andeven with foreign nations, but as yet without the aid of a moneycurrency. They could manufacture tools and weapons ofcopper, bronze, and even of iron. They had the knowledgeand skill necessary to carry out the gigantic engineering andarchitectural tasks of building a pyramid such as that ofKhufu. In the arts, they had learned to make wonderfully
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JO CIVILIZATION i* EGYPT AND WESTERN \si.\ iinc porl raits in I h hardest kinds of stone. They knew liwlo build comfortable homes, how to enjoy life as civilizedbeings. They had ;i system f writing, and a Literature oftheir own. The worship f their many gods satisfied theinborn neod of man for a religion the belief in some power,stronger than man himself, which rules the universe. References for Outside Beading Hoignobos, indent Civili ation, oh 3; Hommol, Civilization of theEast, Breasted, indent Egyptians, oh 3, pp 83 L02, oh. 8; Baikie,Story of the Phataohs, oh L, 2, I; Masporo, Andent Egypt and Assyria,oh i 6; Masporoi Manual of Egyptian Archaeology; Budge, The Dwellereon the Nile, Petrie, A History of Egypt, Vol. (. Topics lor Written or Oral Kcport I. Tm Pyramids i1 io the index in the books oited above and the it i i.i. in the Encyclopaedias upon Pyramids.Shopping in Egypt Masporo, Andent Egypt and Assyria, oh 2,;; likk op in Egyptian Noble Maspo

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