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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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quiet, at all events on the surface, in thisdirection, the nations on the north and north-west had forsome time past begun to adopt a more threatening attitude.That migration of races between Europe and Asia, whichhad been in such active progress about the middle of thesecond millennium before our era, had increased twofold inintensity after the rise of the XX Egyptian dynasty, andfrom thenceforward a wave of new races had graduallyspread over the whole of Asia Minor, and had either driventhe older peoples into the less fertile or more inaccessibledistricts, or else had overrun and absorbed them. Manyof the nations that had fought against Eamses II. andEamses III., such as the Uashasha, the Shagalasha, theZakkali, the Danauna, and the Tursha, had disappeared,but the Thracians, whose appearance on the scene causedsuch consternation in days gone by, had taken root in thevery heart of the peninsula, and had, in the course of threeor four generations, succeeded in establishing a thriving
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THE PHRYGIANS AND THEIR EARLIEST RULERS 93 state. The legend which traced the descent of the royalline back to the fabulous hero Ascanius proves that at theoutset the haughty tribe of the Ascanians must have takenprecedence over their fellows; ■ it soon degenerated, how-ever, and before long the Phrygian tribe gained the upperhand and gave its name to the whole nation. Phrygiaproper, the country first colonised by them, lay betweenMount Dindymus and the river Halys, in the valley of theUpper Sangarios and its affluents: it was there that thetowns and strongholds of their most venerated leaders, suchas Midaion, Dorylaion, Gordiaion, Tataion, and many othersstood close together, perpetuating the memory of Midas,Dorylas, G-ordios, and Tatas. Its climate was severe andliable to great extremes of temperature, being bitterly coldin winter and almost tropical during the summer months ;forests of oak and pine, however, and fields of cornflourished, while the mountain slopes favoured the gro

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