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... records of legal processes and court proceedings , registers of the land , taxation , and population , which he ... records is evidence of their variety and volume . Besides scribes of the Pharaohs and an overseer of records , there are ...
... records of legal processes and court proceedings , registers of the land , taxation , and population , which he ... records is evidence of their variety and volume . Besides scribes of the Pharaohs and an overseer of records , there are ...
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... record is magnified to 100,225 sheep in a subsequent reign . Accordingly , unless contemporaneous or unless it can be checked by the original from which it was derived , an Assyrian annal must be taken with cau- tion . For the most part ...
... record is magnified to 100,225 sheep in a subsequent reign . Accordingly , unless contemporaneous or unless it can be checked by the original from which it was derived , an Assyrian annal must be taken with cau- tion . For the most part ...
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... record , expanded from the skeleton form of annual lists of sheriffs and mayors of London and began to assume a national character . London's history became a " civic history of the kingdom . " Lesser and more strictly local records of ...
... record , expanded from the skeleton form of annual lists of sheriffs and mayors of London and began to assume a national character . London's history became a " civic history of the kingdom . " Lesser and more strictly local records of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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