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Title: The eastern nations and Greece
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston New York : Ginn
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 21. Phalanx of theHittites In the background, town protectedby walls and moats §29) THE TWENTY-SIXTH DYNASTY 33 29. The Twenty-sixth Dynasty (663-625 B.C.). We pass withoutcomment a long period of several centuries, marked indeed by greatvicissitudes in the fortunes of the Egyptian monarchs, yet characterizedon the whole by a sure and rapid decline in the power and splendorof their empire.^ During the latter part of this period Egypt was tribu-tary to Ethiopia ^ or to Assyria; but a native prince, Psammetichusby name, with the aid of Greek mercenaries, bronze men who cameup from the sea, drove out the foreign garrisons. Psammetichusthus became the founder of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty (663 B.C.). Owing his throne chiefly to the swords of Greek soldiers, Psam-metichus was led to open the country even more completely than
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Fig. 22. Brick-Making in Ancient Egypt. (From Thebes) the earlier Pharaohs had done to the settlement of Greek colonists.The creation of these closer relations with Greece at just this timewhen the Greeks were coming prominently forward to play theirgreat part in history was a most significant event. From this timeon, Greek philosophers are represented as becoming pupils of theEgyptian priests; and without question the learning and philosophyof the old Egyptians exercised a profound influence upon the open, 1 The most important episode in the history of this period was an attempted invasionof Egypt by sea raiders whom the Egyptian records called the Peoples of the Sea.They were met and defeated somewhere along the Syrian coast by Rameses III (about1200 B.C.). These sea folk are believed to have been /Egean peoples — Cretans, Lycians,etc. The Greeks it seems were at this time pressing into the Greek peninsula fromthe north, and were subjecting or driving out the native inhabitants of

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