Download or read book High School Ancient History (Classic Reprint) written by William Carey Morey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from High School Ancient History The usual division of ancient history into Oriental, Greek, and Roman, has been followed not only as the most con venient arrangement, but as afiording the means to illustrate in a satisfactory way the progressive stages in the growth of ancient civilization. A brief sketch of the Oriental countries is given to show the beginnings of man's industrial fife and the initial stages in the development of government, 'art, science, and religion. -the Greek world is viewed as the historical field especially distinguished for the growth of political liberty and the development of a high intellec tual and mathetic culture; In dacribing the Roman world, the attempt has been made to keep clearly in view that which has given to Rome its distinctive place m the world's history - the genius for organisation, the growth of an imperial dominion, and the development of a universal system of government and law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.