{"product_id":"2940015756562","title":"HISTORY OF EGYPT CHALDEA, SYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA Volume 4 of 12","description":"_THE FIRST CHALDEAN EMPIRE AND THE HYKSÔS IN EGYPT_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_SYRIA: THE PART PLAYED BY IT IN THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD--\u003cbr\u003eBABYLON AND THE FIRST CHALDÆAN EMPIRE--THE DOMINION OF THE HYKSÔS:\u003cbr\u003eÂHMOSIS._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Syria, owing to its geographical position, condemned to be subject to\u003cbr\u003eneighbouring powers-Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, the valley of the Orontes\u003cbr\u003eand of the Litâny, and surrounding regions: the northern table-land, the\u003cbr\u003ecountry about Damascus, the Mediterranean coast, the Jordan and the Dead\u003cbr\u003eSea-Civilization and primitive inhabitants, Semites and Asiatics: the\u003cbr\u003ealmost entire absence of Egyptian influence, the predominance of that of\u003cbr\u003eChaldæa._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Babylon, its ruins and its environs--It extends its rule over\u003cbr\u003eMesopotamia; its earliest dynasty and its struggle with Central\u003cbr\u003eChaldæa-Elam, its geographical position, its peoples; Kutur-Nakhunta\u003cbr\u003econquers Larsam-Bimsin (Eri-Aku); Khammurabi founds the first Babylonian\u003cbr\u003eempire; Ids victories, his buildings, his canals--The Elamites in\u003cbr\u003eSyria: Kudurlagamar--Syria recognizes the authority of Hammurabi and his\u003cbr\u003esuccessors._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Hyksôs conquer Egypt at the end of the XIVth dynasty; the founding\u003cbr\u003eof Avaris--Uncertainty both of ancients and moderns with regard to the\u003cbr\u003eorigin of the Hyksôs: probability of their being the Khati--Their kings\u003cbr\u003eadopt the manners and civilization of the Egyptians: the monuments of\u003cbr\u003eKhiani and of Apôphis I. and II--The XVth dynasty._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Semitic incursions following the Hyksôs--The migration of the\u003cbr\u003ePhoenicians and the Israelites into Syria: Terah, Abraham and his\u003cbr\u003esojourn in the land of Canaan--Isaac, Jacob, Joseph: the Israelites go\u003cbr\u003edown into Egypt and settle in the land of Goshen._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Thébes revolts against the Hyksôs: popular traditions as to the origin\u003cbr\u003eof the war, the romance of Apôphis and Saquinri--The Theban princesses\u003cbr\u003eand the last Icings of the XVIIth dynasty: Tiûdqni Kamosis, Ahmosis\u003cbr\u003eI.--The lords of El-Kab, and the part they played during the war of\u003cbr\u003eindependence--The taking of Avaris and the expulsion of the Ilylcsôs._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The reorganization of Egypt--Ahmosis I. and his Nubian wars, the\u003cbr\u003ereopening of the quarries of Turah--Amenôthes I. and his mother\u003cbr\u003eNofrîtari: the jewellery of Queen Âhhotpû--The wars of Amenôthes I.,\u003cbr\u003ethe apotheosis of Nofrîtari--The accession of Thûtmosis I. and the\u003cbr\u003ere-generation of Egypt._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I--THE FIRST CHALDÆAN EMPIRE AND THE HYKSÔS IN EGYPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Syria: the part played by it in the ancient world--Babylon and the\u003cbr\u003efirst Chaldæan empire--The dominion of the Hyksôs: Âhmosis._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome countries seem destined from their origin to become the\u003cbr\u003ebattle-fields of the contending nations which environ them. Into such\u003cbr\u003eregions, and to their cost, neighbouring peoples come from century to\u003cbr\u003ecentury to settle their quarrels and bring to an issue the questions of\u003cbr\u003esupremacy which disturb their little corner of the world. The nations\u003cbr\u003earound are eager for the possession of a country thus situated; it\u003cbr\u003eis seized upon bit by bit, and in the strife dismembered and trodden\u003cbr\u003eunderfoot: at best the only course open to its inhabitants is to join\u003cbr\u003eforces with one of its invaders, and while helping the intruder to\u003cbr\u003eovercome the rest, to secure for themselves a position of permanent\u003cbr\u003eservitude. Should some unlooked-for chance relieve them from the\u003cbr\u003epresence of their foreign lord, they will probably be quite incapable of\u003cbr\u003eprofiting by the respite which fortune puts in their way, or of making\u003cbr\u003eany effectual attempt to organize themselves in view of future attacks.\u003cbr\u003eThey tend to become split up into numerous rival communities, of which\u003cbr\u003eeven the pettiest will aim at autonomy, keeping up a perpetual frontier\u003cbr\u003ewar for the sake of becoming possessed of or of retaining a glorious\u003cbr\u003esovereignty over a few acres of corn in the plains, or some wooded\u003cbr\u003eravines in the mountains. Year after year there will be scenes of bloody\u003cbr\u003econflict, in which petty armies will fight petty battles on behalf of\u003cbr\u003epetty interests, but so fiercely, and with such furious animosity, that\u003cbr\u003ethe country will suffer from the strife as much as, or even more than,\u003cbr\u003efrom an invasion. There will be no truce to their struggles until they\u003cbr\u003eall fall under the sway of a foreign master, and, except in the interval\u003cbr\u003ebetween two conquests, they will have no national existence, their\u003cbr\u003ehistory being almost entirely merged in that of other nations.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165171630320,"sku":"2940015756562","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015756562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}