READING HALL

THE DOORS OF WISDOM

THE

ASSYRIAN EMPIRE

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.- THE FOUNDATION OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE By Sidney Smith

CHAPTER II THE SUPREMACY OF ASSYRIA By Sidney Smith

CHAPTER III SENNACHERIB AND ESARHADDON By Sidney Smith

CHAPTER IV THE AGE OF ASHURBANIPAL By Sidney Smith

CHAPTER V ASHURBANIPAL AND THE FALL OF ASSYRIA By Sidney Smith

CHAPTER VI THE HITTITES OF SYRIA By D. G. Hogarth

CHAPTER VII HITTITE CIVILIZATION By D. G. Hogarth

CHAPTER VIII THE KINGDOM OF VAN (URARTU) By A. H. Sayce

CHAPTER IX THE SCYTHIANS AND NORTHERN NOMADS By E. H. Minns

CHAPTER X THE NEW BABYLONIAN EMPIRE By R. Campbell Thompson

CHAPTER XI THE INFLUENCE OF BABYLONIA By R. Campbell Thompson

CHAPTER XII THE ECLIPSE OF EGYPT B y H. R. Hall

CHAPTER XIII THE ETHIOPIANS AND ASSYRIANS IN EGYPT By H. R. Hall

CHAPTER XIV THE RESTORATION OF EGYPT By H. R. Hall

CHAPTER XV ORIENTAL ART OF THE SAITE PERIOD By H. R. Hall

CHAPTER XVI THE TOPOGRAPHY OF JERUSALEM By R. A. Stewart Macalister,

CHAPTER XVII ISRAEL AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES By Stanley A. Cook

CHAPTER XVIII THE FALL AND RISE OF JUDAH By S. A. Cook

CHAPTER XIX LYDIA AND IONIA By D. G. Hogarth

CHAPTER XX THE GROWTH OF THE DORIAN STATES By H. T. Wade-Gery

CHAPTER XXI EARLY ATHENS By E. A. Gardner

CHAPTER XXII NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GREECE By M. Cary

CHAPTER XXIII THE COLONIAL EXPANSION OF GREECE By John L. Myres,

CHAPTER XXIV THE GROWTH OF THE GREEK CITY-STATE By F. E. Adcock

ASSYRIAN ART