The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . Babylonia—Assyria Conquers Babylon 27 Assyrian. This ancient letter of protest is one of a most interesting batchof documents recently found in Eg

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The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . Babylonia—Assyria Conquers Babylon 27 Assyrian. This ancient letter of protest is one of a most interesting batchof documents recently found in Egypt, and called from their place of dis-covery the Tel-el-Amarna letters. They represent the state correspondencebetween Egypt and Asia at about this period, and from them wc learn thatthe Babylonian tongue was used for communication between different govern-ments, just as Latin was in mediaeval Europe, or French during the mightysovereignty of Louis XIV. About 1360 B.C., the ever-turbulent Kassite soldiery of Babylon, in a suddenrevolt, slew their king, and placed on the throne a man of low parentage, asthe later monarchs scornfully called him. The murdered king had been con-nected by marriage with the ruler of Assur; so we find the latter promptlymarching up to Babylon, where he restored by force the rightful heir, his owngrandson. From this time Assyria seems rather the stronger power of the two. Withthe exception of an occasional Elami