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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Persia—The Nation Founded 79 Russia, and of central Asia. Probably not all these hordes were Aryans. Theycome into no clear view until the day when Nineveh was destroyed (607 B.C.) bythe joint armies of Babylon and of an Aryan chief whom old historians calledCvaxeres, king of the Medes. These Medes of Cyaxeres and the Persians seem to have been tribes of onenation, more or less united. Migrating slowly southward, warring against bothSemites and Turanians by the way, the Medes and Persians had settled in whatis now modern Persia, the Medes in the north, the Persians in the south. Thelatter, indeed, took possession not only of the mountain region, which is stillcalled from them Farzistan, but also of the lower hill country of ancient Elam,where the Elamites, as you will remember, had been exterminated by the lastefforts of the Assyrian empire. Herodotus, that celebrated old Greek who in his travels over Asia gatheredand preserv^ed for us so much of half-legendary history, tells us tha

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