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... Europe from the Elbe to the Caspian . With Ptolemy , however , India emerges from obscurity , not merely the coast but the interior . He notices twenty towns in Ceylon and is the first geographer who mentions the peninsula beyond the ...
... Europe from the Elbe to the Caspian . With Ptolemy , however , India emerges from obscurity , not merely the coast but the interior . He notices twenty towns in Ceylon and is the first geographer who mentions the peninsula beyond the ...
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... Europe began to be self- conscious ; it had common interests and common foes , and above the petty feuds of its princes loomed a higher ideal - that of Christendom in conflict with Islam . . . . By contact with the Orient the historical ...
... Europe began to be self- conscious ; it had common interests and common foes , and above the petty feuds of its princes loomed a higher ideal - that of Christendom in conflict with Islam . . . . By contact with the Orient the historical ...
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... Europe . The early fourteenth century everywhere in Europe , as has been said in a previous chapter , marks the transition from the age of the chronicle to that of descriptive history . Spanish historiography , both Castilian and Aragon ...
... Europe . The early fourteenth century everywhere in Europe , as has been said in a previous chapter , marks the transition from the age of the chronicle to that of descriptive history . Spanish historiography , both Castilian and Aragon ...
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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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