QUESTIONS ON ANCIENT HISTORY. CHAPTER I. EGYPT. SEC. 1.-Geographical Outline. 1. The first country in which a government was established? 2. How did civilization everywhere com- 3. What has Egypt been always called? 5. Where does the Nile enter Egypt? 8. On what does its fertility depend? 11. When do the waters subside? 12. The eastern side of the valley, describe. 13. The western side. 14. Benefit of this ridge. 4. The different castes among them, and their relative rank? 5. The central point of every colony? 6. What were nomes? 7. What is said of them? 9. When did Egypt become united under 10. What is said of the priestly caste? 14. The most important division of an Egyp- 15. Describe their chariots ? 16. How were nations distinguished from each other? 17. The national weapon of the Egyptians? 18. Their heavy arms? 19. How were their light troops armed? 15. Mention some of the interesting monu- 21. How were their captives treated? ments of Upper Egypt. 16. What is said of lake Moeris ? 17. Where was the labyrinth? 18. The capital of Middle Egypt? 19. What is said of it? 22. What is said of their religion and government? 23. The authority of their priests? 24. The general idea that pervaded their entire religious system? 20. The most remarkable monuments of 25. The result of this? Middle Egypt? 21. What is said of Lower Egypt? 22. Where did the civilized portion of the Egyptians dwell? 23. The great object of sacerdotal and royal policy? 24. Why was every shepherd regarded as an abomination to the Egyptians? 26. What is said of astrology? 27. The Egyptian creeds with reference to 28. Origin of the practice of embalming? 30. What is said of trades and professions? SEC. 2.-Political and Social Condition of 33. Their posture at table? the Egyptians. 1. Colour of the Egyptians? 34. The respect paid to women, rank, and age? 2. What conjecture has been hazarded re- 35. The principal trees of Egypt? specting them? 36. Their use of wine? 3. The habits and manners of the people in 37. Their most remarkable vegetables? the different districts? 38. Their domestic animals? 39. The use made of the skin of the hippo- 6. Who attempted to check him, and with potamus? 40. How were the eggs of poultry hatched? SEC. 3.-History of Egypt from the earliest Period to the Accession of Psammetichus. 1. The most ancient of the states of Egypt? 2. The most powerful? 3. What is said of Memphis? 4. When did the Hyksos invade Egypt? 5. The policy of Pharaoh in locating the colony of the Israelites in the land of Goshen? 6. Who was the Pharaoh that tyrannized over them? 7. What task did he impose upon them? 8. What is said of the labour imposed on them of making bricks? 9. How did Pharaoh attempt to check their increase? 10. Why did Moses quit Egypt? 11. How was Pharaoh punished by the God of Israel? 12. How was his army destroyed? 13. The year of this calamity? 14. Who was the Pharaoh that received Joseph ? 15. When was glass first used? 16. The results to the Hvksos of the destruction of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea? 17. Who was Danaus of the Greeks? 18. In honour of whom was the vocal statue of Memnon erected? 19. Who were the Rameses? 20 With what calamities was Egypt afflicted during the reign of Amenoph IV.? 21. Excesses of the Hyksos? 22. The most celebrated of the Egyptian monarchs? 23. His exploits? 24. Extent of his conquests, and how proved? 25. By what name is he best known? 26. Extent of Shishak's empire? 27. Who subsequently subjugated Egypt? 28. Conduct of Sethos? 29. How did he oppose Sennacherib? 30. Who once more united all Egypt under a single monarchy? 31. His treatment of the warrior caste, and their conduct? SEC. 4.-History of Egypt from the Reign of Psammetichus to its Subjugation by Cambyses. 1. What change was made in the ancient policy of Egypt at the accession of Psammetichus? 2 The great object of his policy? 3. His son and successor ? 4. What enterprise did he undertake, and who completed it? 5. What circumstance alarmed him? 5. The immediate cause of the captivity | 13. Character of their language? of the ten tribes? 6. Who was Sévechus? 7. What colonists emigrated to Ethiopia in the reign of Psammetichus? 8. Of what advantage were they to the Ethiopians? 9. Of what folly was Cambyses guilty, in his invasion of Ethiopia? 10. Sufferings of his soldiers? 11. How was the king of Ethiopia elected? 12. Strange custom of the electors? 13. Who resisted it, and with what success? 14. Which of the queens of Ethiopia made war against Augustus Cæsar? 15. What religion was prevalent at Meroë? SEC. 3.-Arts, Commerce, and Manufactures of Meroë. 1. What is said of the pyramids of Meroë? 2. The most striking proof of the progress of the Ethiopians in the art of building? 3. Commerce and manufactures of Meroë? 4. To what did it owe its greatness? 5. The causes of its ruin? 6. What accelerated it? 4. Situation of Assyria? 5. Fertility of Babylonia? 6. Its vegetable productions? 14. Materials on which they wrote ? SEC. 3.-History of the Assyrians and Babylonians. 1. Greek account of Assyrian history? 2. What is said of Nimrod ? 3. When was the Assyrian empire founded? 4. Its capital? 5. Nimrod's principal queen? 6. Why is it sometimes said that she founded Babylon? 7. Her conquests? 8. Character and conduct of her successors? 9. Give some account of Pul. 10. Of Tiglath-pul-assur. 11. Of Shalman-assur. 12. Of Sanherib or Sennacherib. 15. Who were the Kasdim or Chaldeans? 16. Testimony of Isaiah respecting them? 17. Why is the reign of Nabonassar a remarkable era in history? 18. What Egyptian monarch invaded Assyria, and with what success? 19. Who was Nitocris ? 20. Of what opportunity did the Jews avail themselves to assert their independence? 21. How did they suffer for their revolt? 22. Why did they a second time revolt? 23. How were they then punished? 24. Of what folly was Nebuchadnezzar guilty on his return? 25. What befell him at the close of his reign? 26. By what people was the Babylonian empire overthrown? 27. Meaning of the name Belshazzar? 7. Why was commerce neglected by the 28. Works of the queen-mother Nitocris? Babylonians? 8. What is said of their bricks? 9. Their substitute for mortar? 10. Nature of it? SEC. 2.-Political and Social Condition of the Assyrians and Babylonians. 1. Government of Assyria? 2. Power and state of the king? 3. Their priesthood, and religion? 4. Name of their supreme deity? 5. What has rendered the Assyrian mythology obscure? 6. The most marked attributes of their idolatry? 7. Form of their idols? 8. The condition of woman in Babylonia? 9. How were they married? 10. The natural results of this system? 11. How aggravated? 12. Their progress in the mechanical arts, and in mathematical science? 29. Conduct of Belshazzar? 30. How did Cyrus enter Babylon ? 31. Fate of Belshazzar? 32. Date of the fall of Babylon? SEC. 4.-Description of Nineveh and 1. Nineveh, why so named? 2. Its situation? 3. Its form and dimensions? 4. Why so large ! 5. Its wall and towers? 6. What is it now? 7. Form and dimensions of Babylon? 8. What is said of its sun-dried bricks? 9. Dimensions of its walls? 10. Describe the city. 11. In what two ways were the banks of the Euphrates connected? 12. Size of the bridge? 13. Describe the temple of Belus. 14. Describe the hanging gardens? SEC. 1.-Asia Minor.-Geographical Outline. 1. What is said of the term Asia Minor? 2. Where was Troy situated? 1. What Jewish king conquered Syria? 3. Fate of Benhadad? 4. Character and actions of Hazael? 5. What led to the destruction of Damascus? 6. The first sovereign of Tyre, and with whom contemporary? 7. His son and successor? 8. Condition of Tyre in his reign? 9. The most remarkable of his successors ? 10. By whom was Carthage founded? 3. By what people was the western coasts 11. How was Tyre almost ruined by Nebu of Asia Minor colonized? 4. What is said of Sardis? 5. Why was Galatia so called? 6. For what was Caria chiefly remarkable? 7. By whom was Tarsus founded? SEC. 2.-Ancient History of Asia Minor. chadnezzar? 12. What change was afterwards made in 13. Of what advantage was it to Persia? 1. The three kingdoms of Asia Minor most SEC. 6.-Phoenician Colonies and Foreign worthy of notice? 2. What is said of the history of Troy? 5. Cause of its siege and destruction? 6. What shows that the Phrygians were 8. Her priests, and for what celebrated? 9. Name of most of the Phrygian kings? 10. Story of the Gordian knot? 11. Who were the Lydians? 12. The three dynasties that ruled over them? 13. Who were the Cimmerians? 14. Effect of an eclipse of the sun? 15. By whom had it been predicted? 16. What is said of Croesus? Possessions. 1. What system has always helped on civilization? 2. The design of founding colonies? 3. Why does civil liberty advance more rapidly in colonies than in the parent state? 4. Characteristic of commercial states? 5. Ezekiel's description of Tyre? 6. Progress of the Phoenician colonies? 7. What country was the Peru of the ancient world? 8. What is Spain called in the Scriptures? 9. What is said of the Tyrian colonies there? 10. Conduct of the Tyrians toward their colonies? 17. Visit of Solon to him, and their interview? 11. The pillars of Hercules, what? 18. How did he escape death? SEC. 3.-Syria.-Geographical Outline. 1. To what country was the name of Syria given? 2. Its proper dimensions? 3 Its three divisions? 4. Its principal cities? 12. How far north did the Tyrians extend their trade? 13. What African cities rivalled Tyre in wealth and magnificence? 14. Why did they keep the knowledge of their discoveries to themselves? 15. Who first formed commercial settlements along Asia Minor and the Black sea? 16. What establishments did they have in 9. Conduct of Moses when he beheld their the eastern seas? 17. When were these settlements made? 18. With what people did they closely ally themselves? SEC. 7.-Phenician Manufactures and Commerce. 1. The Tyrian purple, what; and how obtained? 2. What art was known to the Phoenicians alone? 3. By whom was glass invented? 5. In what did their commerce consist? 7. What was imported from Arabia ? 8. How was this trade carried on? 9. The ports of the Idumeans? 10. Their capital? 11. Ancient caravans, describe? 12. The cause of the close alliance of the Phoenicians and Israelites ? 13. Who built Baalbec and Palmyra? 14. His design, and how frustrated? 15. The great high road of Phoenician commerce? 16. Their rivals and political enemies? 17. The richest country in the ancient world in precious metals? 18. Whence did the Phoenicians procure their tin? 19. Whence their amber; and its value? 20. What circumstances prove the boldness of their commercial enterprises? CHAPTER V. PALESTINE. SEC. 1.-Geographical Outline. 1. Situation of Palestine ? 2. Its most remarkable features? 3. Its two great plains? 4. Its only great river? 5. The site of Sodom and Gomorrah? 6. The principal cities of Palestine? 7. What country did David annex to it? 8. What gave importance to Idumæa? 9. Present condition of Palestine? SEC. 2.-History of Palestine. 1. Father of the Hebrews? 2. History of Joseph ? 3. Fate of Pharaoh's host? golden calf? 10. Why were they compelled to wander in the wilderness forty years? 11. The miracles of their journey? 12. Why did they leave Edom unmolested? 13. What victories did they gain? 14. Result of the census? 15. Last acts of Moses? 16. Age of Moses at his death? 17. Who concealed his body, and why? SEC. 3.-The Conquest of Canaan by Joshua. 1. Moses' successor; his age and character? 2. Some of the difficulties in his way? 3. Conduct of the tribes of Reuben and Gad? 4. How was the Jordan crossed, and Jericho taken ? 5. By what stratagem was the city of Ai taken ?-See the S. S. 6. Stratagem of the Gibeonites? 7. What miracle was performed at Joshua's command? 8. How long did the war continue against the Canaanites? 9. 10. The folly of the Israelites in abandoning it, and the consequences? Joshua's age at his death? 11. How long did the Israelites continue to serve God? SEC. 4.-History of Israel under the Judges. 1. How was Israel governed under the theocracy? 2. How were these judges chosen? 3. Why did God suffer the heathen to oppress his people? 4. How long did the king of Mesopotamia oppress them? 5. How long the Moabites? 6. How long Jabin, king of Syria? 7. How long the Midianites? 8. How were they delivered? 9. What produced a civil war? 10. How was Abimelech killed? 11. Who was Jephthah? 12. How long did the Philistines oppress them? 13. What strong man harassed the Philistines? 14. His end? 15. Conduct of Eli's two sons? 16. Who was Samuel? 17. Why did the Israelites demand a king? 18. What made this demand treasonable? 4. Why did God lead his people through 19. Whom did God set over them as their the desert? 5. When did they reach Sinai? 6. Their government? 7. The one great object of their institutions? king? SEC. 5.-History of the United Kingdom of 8. For what purpose were they chosen by 1. What made Saul popular with the peo God to be his peculiar people? ple? |