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Excerpt from Ancient History Ancient History is divided into seven part according to the succession of empires: I. Egypt from remotest times to the conquest of Cambyses, King of the Persians, 3. 0. 525. II. Assyria and Babylon, from the foundation of Babylon and Ninive to the taking of Babylon by Cyrus, 538. III. Media and Persia, from the origin of these states to the beginning of the Median wars, 500. IV. Phoenicia and Carthage, from the origin of the Phoenicians to the beginning of the Punic wars, 264. V. Greece, from the origin of the Greeks to the accession of Philip, King of Macedonia, 360. VI. Macedonia and the empire of Alexander the Great, from the accession of Philip to the battle of Ipsus, or the partition of the empire of Alexander the Great, 301. VII. The states formed from the dismember ment of the empire of Alexander the Great, from the battle of Ipsus to the conquest by the Romans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.