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MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE

OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKING

POSSESSION OF GREECE

AN ÆGEAN CITY ON THE GREEK MAINLAND

Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning to show the first signs of decay, and Hammurabi, the wise king of Babylon, had been dead and buried several centuries, when a small tribe of shepherds left their homes along