Ancient States and Empires. John Lord
rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_2058be96-89d9-5b1a-8b41-760aa040e1a8">CHAPTER XXV.
ROME IN ITS INFANCY, UNDER KINGS.
THE ROMAN REPUBLIC TILL THE INVASION OF THE GAULS.
THE SECOND PUNIC OR HANNIBALIC WAR.
THE MACEDONIAN AND ASIATIC WARS.
ROMAN CONQUESTS FROM THE FALL OF CARTHAGE TO THE. TIMES OF THE GRACCHI.
ROMAN CIVILIZATION AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD PUNIC. WAR, AND THE FALL OF GREECE.
THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI.
THE WARS WITH JUGURTHA AND THE CIMBRI.—MARIUS.
THE REVOLT OF ITALY, AND THE SOCIAL WAR.—MARIUS. AND SULLA.
THE MITHRIDATIC AND CIVIL WARS.—MARIUS AND SULLA.
THE CIVIL WARS BETWEEN CÆSAR AND POMPEY.
THE CIVIL WARS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF CÆSAR.—ANTONIUS.—AUGUSTUS.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE ON THE ACCESSION OF AUGUSTUS.
THE SIX CÆSARS OF THE JULIAN LINE.
THE CLIMAX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
BOOK I.
ANCIENT ORIENTAL NATIONS.
CHAPTER I.
THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.
The Creation.
The history of this world begins, according to the chronology of Archbishop Ussher, which is generally received as convenient rather than probable, in the year 4004 before Christ. In six days God created light and darkness, day and night, the firmament and the continents in the midst of the waters, fruits, grain, and herbs, moon and stars, fowl and fish, living creatures upon the face