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HISTORY

I. THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

1. LOCATION OF THEIR COUNTRY:   590.

2. THE BEGINNING OF THEIR  HISTORY:    591.

3. THE   FOURTH   DYNASTY AND  ITS ACHIEVEMENTS:    591;   1368.

a. Date of its control:   591.

b. Cheops and the building of the Pyramids:   1565;  Sphinx 1797;  Sesostris

1727; Isis 945; Heliopolis 859.

c. The city of Memphis:   1201.

4. THE HYKSOS KINGS:   906;  979.

a. Their final overthrow:  591.

5. THE  PHARAOHS:   1464; 1585;  1269.

a. The city of Thebes:   1898;    Ramession 1585;   Temples of Karnak   and Luxor 1887;   Memnon 1201.

6. THOTMES III AND THE  EMPIRE OF EGYPT:   591;   629;   313;   1521;   Shishak

1746; Cambyses 313; Petrie 1462; Atlantis 133; Lepsius 1057; archaeology 91.

7. INDUSTRY OF THE PEOPLE:

a. Agriculture the chief industry:    26;  940;  46.

b.  Metal  and  leather working,  making  of linen, brick, glass:   1043;   1076;

265; 2005;   773.

8. SCIENCE AND ART:   591;   668.

a. Astronomy:    750;   Ptolemy 1558;   astrology 127;   geometry  (Euclid)   631;

algebra 48; architecture 92; literature 1082; Alexandrian Library 46; sculpture 1711; Karnak 1887; Luxor 1888; medicine (Hippocrates) 875; geography 745.

b. The use of hieroglyphics:   Rosetta Stone 1635; writing 2113; pen 1443.

c. The use of papyrus:   1418;  1417.

d. Embalming:    mummy 1276;   pyramids 1565;   catacombs 348.

e. The mechanical tools invented and used:   591.

9. THE RELIGION OF THE PEOPLE:   races and religions 590;  mythology 1296;

Serapis 1725; scarabseus 1687; Ammon 64;  oracle 1387.

H. THE BABYLONIANS, ASSYRIANS AND PERSIANS. GENERAL REFERENCES:

Susa 1852; Ecbatana 578;  Nineveh 1352;  Nippur 1352;  Persopolis 1454;  Ispahan 946;  Bagdad 156.

1. LOCATION:    Babylonia   152;   Assyria   125;   Persia   1455;   The   Modes   1197;

Mesopotamia 1210.

2. THE PEOPLE:   152; Semites 1722; Aryans 116; Iranians 936;  Semiramis 1722.

3. THEIR ARTS:   Assyrian art 668; architecture 93; archaeology 91;  Seven Won-

ders 1727; libraries 1063; brick 265; cuneiform 486; Shiraz 1746; book 243.

4. THEIR WARS  AND  CONQUESTS:    Cyrus  493;    Cambyses  313;    Darius  503;

Xerxes 2118; Croesus 480; Lydia 1126; fortification 700; Sar-danapalus 1679; Sardis 1680; Salamis 1664; Marathon 1167; Greece 801; Jerusalem 970; Jews 972.

6. THEIR RELIGION:  Zoroaster 2136; Darius 504; Magi 1144; Parsis 1426; Persian literature 1081;  oracle 1387.

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