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Excerpt from Survey of the Ancient World, 1919 This book offers in briefer form a sketch of the same periods which are more fully treated in the author's Ancient Times. The same relative distribution of material and the same methods of treatment and presentation found in the larger volume are fol lowed in this smaller book. 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.