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 (14782884612)

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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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,whom they naturally welcomed as allies. Most celebrated ofthese additions to their number was that of the children ofIsrael. Perhaps the Hyksos sovereign—in whose time the Hebrewshepherd lad, Joseph, was brought as a slave into Egypt—^wasthe Set-ah-peti of whom a later monarch speaks as ruling aboutthis time, and being a mighty king favored by the gods. Wecannot, however, speak fully of those days; for in after yearsthe Egyptians destroyed every record they could find of thehated Hyksos. Hence the Biblical account stands as the onlynarrative of the time. It shows us just such a condition ofaffairs as we would expect. The native Egyptian soothsayersare little trusted by the foreign king. When they and thepriests seek to explain his dreams of the seven cows and sevenears of-corn, Pharaoh turns from their interpretations con-temptuously and seeks instead the divinations of the youngAsiatic slave of whom he has heard, and whom he releases fromcaptivity to become his chief councillor.
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Egypt—The Pyramid of Cheops 11 ■? of the rivers flood. The population had so increased that thousands of work-men were thus left idle, subject to the whim of the ruler, who, with that vanitywhich is a part of human nature, devoted an army of his subjects to buildingthose colossal pyramids, which will probably last through all the coming ages.On the plateau west of Memphis nearly seventy of these stupendous monumentswere erected. The three most prominent, because of their prodigious size, areknown as the Pyramids of Ghizeh, near which city they stand. The greatest of all is the pyramid of Khufu or Cheops, founder of the fourthdynasty of Egyptian kings. Khufus pyramid was four hundred and eightyfeet high, but the breaking away of its apex has reduced it some thirty feet.Each side of the base is 764 feet in length, and the vast pile contains about90,000,000 cubic feet of masonry, covering thirteen acres, twice the extent ofany other building in the world. This pyramid is notable for