The Gathering of the Storm. The last
Comer among the Great Races . . 347-370
1-3. Appearance on the scene of the Aryan race, the last
among the four great races. 4. Migrations of the Aryan
or Indo-European race. 5. Its great qualities.
6.Ariana. 7. Eran and Turan. 8. The Medes.
9. Their early social conditions. 10. Their advance
towards the West. 11. They supplant nations of other,
especially Turanian, stock. 12. Aryan migrations into and
across Russia. 13. The Cimmerians. 14. Their migration
into Thrace, driven before the Scythians. 15. Asia
Minor early peopled by Hittites. 16. Hittite sculptures in
Lydia. 17, in Cilicia. 18, in Cappadocia. 19. Lydia
and its early traditions. 20. The Phrygo-Thracian family
of nations. 21. The Cimmerians cross the Bosphorus and
invade Asia Minor.
The Decline of Asshur. Asshurbanipal
(Asshur-bani-habal) . . . 371-416
1. Brilliant beginnings of Asshurbanipal's reign. 2-4.
Egyptian campaign and sack of Thebes. 5. Rising and
submission of Tyre and Arvad. 6-8. Incident with
Gyges,-King of Lydia -.-9. Uncertain chronology of this
reign. 10. Assyria threatened from several points. 11.
Danger from the Scythians south of the Caucasus. 12.
Defeat of Gog the Scythian king. 13. First war with
Elam : Urtaki, King of Elam, opens hostifties and is defeated.
14. His brother Teumman succeeds. Second
war. 15. The Ishtar vision. 16. Battle on the Ulai
and death of Teumman. 17. Tortures and executions
18. Revolt of Shamash-Shumukin. 19. Encouraging
dream of a seer. 20. Revolutions in Elam. 21. Siege
of Babylon and end of Shamash-Shumukin. 22. Nabubel-
zikri of Bit-Yakin goes over to Elam. 23. More revolutions
in Elam. 24. Third great war with Elam. Sack
of Shushan. 25. Tragic end of Nabu-bel-zikri. 26. Pacification
of Bit-Yakin. 27. Last troubles in Elam. 28.
Arabian campaign. 29. Asshurbanipal's triumph. His
chariot drawn by four captive kings. 30. Uncertainty
about the last years of this reign. Asshurbanipal's palace
2 nd library. 31. The sculptures. 32. Asshurbanipal
the Sardanapalus of the Greeks.
XIII.
The Fall of Asshur 417-432
1. Entire lack of Assyrian monuments for the last years of
the Empire. 2 Uncertainty about the last kings of Assyria.
3. Assyria rapidly loses all the conquered provinces.
4. Story of Daokes and the Medes. 5. Probable
explanation of the story. 6. Median invasion of Assyria
under Phraortes. 7-8. Kyaxares and the invasion
of the Scythians. 9. Descent of the Scythians into Syria.
10. Description of the Scythians by the prophet Jeremiah
n. Another, by the prophet Ezekiel. 12. The
Scythians probably overrun Assyria. 13. Kyaxares rids
Media of the Scythians. 14. Alliance between Kyaxares
and Nabopolassar, the new King of Babylon. 15. Siege
and fall of Nineveh. 16. Nahum's prophecy. 17. The
prophet Ezekiel's lament over Asshur. 18. Immediate
causes that hastened the fall of Asshur.
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