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Title: The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 A. D
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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While in Egypt he showed his 1 Carthage dominated the western waters of the Mediterranean — beyondItaly; but she had nothing to do with naval rivalries farther east.
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§279) PERSIAN CAMPAIGNS 267 constructive genius by founding Alexandria at one of themouths of the Nile — a city destined for many centuries tobe a commercial and intellectual center for the world, wherebefore there had been only a haunt of pirates. c. The Tigris-Euphrates District: Battle of Arhela. — Dariusnow proposed that he and Alexander should divide the empirebetween them. ReJ-ecting this offer contemptuously, Alexandertook up his march for the interior. Following the ancientroute from Egypt to Assyria (§ 6), he met Darius near Arhela,not far from ancient Nineveh. The Persians are said to havenumbered a million men. Alexander purposely allowed themchoice of time and place, and by a third decisive VictOYj provedthe hopelessness of their resistance. Darius never gatheredanother army. The capitals of the empire — Babylon, Susa,Ecbatana, Persepolis — surrendered, with enormous treasurein gold and silver, and the Persian Empire had fallen (331 e.g.). The Granicus, Issus, an

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