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... Empire seemingly was in a state of dissolution , like the Western Empire . The province of Cyrene suffered as all the provinces did from internal abuses and corruption , while the fierce nomadic tribes of the Libyan desert beset the ...
... Empire seemingly was in a state of dissolution , like the Western Empire . The province of Cyrene suffered as all the provinces did from internal abuses and corruption , while the fierce nomadic tribes of the Libyan desert beset the ...
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... Empire included the indignant complaint of many that the public disasters were due to the forsaking of the ancient gods . . . Augus- tine . . . stepped forward as the champion of Catholicism and produced this monu- mental work . He ...
... Empire included the indignant complaint of many that the public disasters were due to the forsaking of the ancient gods . . . Augus- tine . . . stepped forward as the champion of Catholicism and produced this monu- mental work . He ...
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... EMPIRE ( 395-1204 ) 1 HE Greek historians of the Eastern Roman Empire in the early centuries of the Middle Ages were better observers and recorders T 2 of events than those of the West . The first of these in the fifth century was ...
... EMPIRE ( 395-1204 ) 1 HE Greek historians of the Eastern Roman Empire in the early centuries of the Middle Ages were better observers and recorders T 2 of events than those of the West . The first of these in the fifth century was ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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