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Excerpt from Grecian History: An Outline Sketch About ten centuries before Christ a new race appeared the first in European history. It was not the earliest of civilized nations. Already twenty centuries looked down from the pyramids upon the populous valley of the Nile; the Israelites were safely established in the Land of Promise; the ships of their Phenician neighbors traded in every Med iterranean lagoon and river mouth, and the region of the Euphrates and Tigris had been for ages the cradle and the tomb of empires. But this fresh people, the Hellenes, or, as the Romans have taught us to call them, the Greeks, differed widely from all previous or contemporary races. Among them developed a unique and splendid civilization, the source of half the ideas and institutions which rule the modern world. So many of the distinguishing traits of the Greek national character Sprang from the natural conditions under which they lived that the wise student of Grecian history must ever preface his studies with some inquiry into the geography of Greece. 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.