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 (14782872142)

The Fall of Darius
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Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Persia—The Recent Revolution (^j Asiatic empire of Russia from the Indian Empire of England to the south.The two great powers have even agreed to a division of the still nominalK inde- i pendent country into so-called spheres of influence, the Russians assuming to ! direct affairs through all the northern half of Persia, and the EngHsh advising j in most of what was left. J Then in 1905 Persia once more attracted the attention of the world. ThePersians re-asserted their ancient love of liberty and arose in revolt against theirown feeble government. The odd course of this revolution was largely shapedby the unofiEicial influence of the two European powers. The Persian Shah,Muzaffir-al-din, had been ruHng solely in the interest of a few favored courtiers,who plundered the people with impunity. The robbery grew unbearable, andmany of the Mahometan priests, or Mollahs, in Teheran resorted to an ancientand peculiarly Persian form of protest called the bast. They took refugein a sacred sh