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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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1-63 Egypt—The Decay 125 ceeded to the throne, so that Egypt was held by religious rather than militarysovereigns. We begin to read frequently in the inscriptions of the Libyanguard. These barbarians became, as did the Germans in Roman days, thechief fighting force of the empire. And then as a very natural result we comeupon a commander of this Libyan guard called Shashanq, who supersedes theancient race of kings that still claimed descent from the god Amon. Shashanq,a stranger and a foreigner, becomes Pharaoh in their stead. With Shashanq we touch once more upon Biblical history. He attemptedto revive the military glory which had long departed from Egypt. Amongother warlike exploits he sought to reassert his empires claim, three centuriesold, over Palestine. The Bible, which spells his name as Shishak, tells how heplundered Jerusalem in the days of Solomons son Rehoboam. Apparently, Shashanq stayed the disruption of Egypt for merel)- a moment.His rule extended over only the lower v

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