54. How did he open his fourth cam- 20. How was this last edict received at paign? 55. The third battle of Darius? 56. Describe this battle? 57. Respective losses of the two armies? 58. How was this triumph sullied? 59. Fate of Darius? 60. Fate of his murderer? 61. What other country did Alexander now invade? 62. Conduct of the Lacedæmonians at this time? 63. What proofs of Alexander's respect for the ancient states of Greece are mentioned? 64. Why was Eschines banished? 65. By what route did Alexander advance 66. What reinforcement did he receive? 68. How did he effect a passage? 71. By what route did he return? 73. What proof of Alexander's consummate 39. Insincerity of Cassander. wisdom is given? 74. What cut short his plan? 75. The place and date of his death? 76. To whom did he give his ring? 40. What was Ptolemy preparing to do? 41. What did Lysimachus resolve upon? 42. Whom did all acknowledge as their sovereign? 43. What murders did Cassander commit? SEC. 3.-Dissolution of the Macedonian 44. Movements of Demetrius? Empire. 45. To what office did his father appoint him? 5. How were Alexander's remains treated? 48. The consequences of this battle? 6. What projected marriage was pre- 49. How long had the mighty empire of vented? Alexander lasted? 7. What storm now burst upon Perdic- 50. The most enduring memorial of his CHAPTER XII. HISTORY OF THE STATES THAT AROSE FROM 137. The project of the exile Cleomenes? THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE MACEDONIAN 39. EMPIRE. 40. Relate the circumstances of his death? 41. What now inclined all the Greeks to SEC. 1.-The History of Macedon and 43. What is said of the Macedonian monarch? 1. Whither did Demetrius flee after the 44. With whom did he form an alliance? fatal battle of Ipsus? 2. How was he received? 3. Where did he establish himself? 45. What great crime did he commit? 46. How did the Romans find employment for Philip at home? 6. Of what dreadful crime was his son Antipater guilty? 7. The consequences of it? 50. Whose aid did the Athenians solicit? 8. Whose aid did Alexander, the surviving 52. Where did they fight with Philip? 9. The consequences of inviting Demetrius into Macedon? 10. What mighty plans did Demetrius now form? 11. Who was excited to invade his dominions? 12. The movements and fate of Demetrius ? 13. Crime of Lysimachus? 14. The consequences of it to himself? 15. By whom was Seleucus murdered? 53. Describe the battle. 54. On what terms did Philip obtain peace? 55. What proclamation did the Romans make at the Isthmian games? 56. Describe the scene. 57. How did Flaminius show his insincerity? 59. By whom was he instigated? 16. What events took place the same year in 62. How were the Etolians treated by the which Seleucus fell? 17. The cause of these revolts in Asia? 63. Romans? By whom was Sparta captured? 18 How did Alexander the Great attempt to 64. What loss did the league sustain? Hellenize the East? 19. The result of this attempt? 65. Relate the circumstances of his death. 66. How was his fate avenged? 20. By whom was Ptolemy Ceraunus, king 67. Philip's cruelty to his son Demetrius ? of Macedon, slain? 21. The progress of the Gauls? 22 Where did they finally settle? 68. His death, how occasioned? 69. The first act of Perseus, his successor? 70. Where was he defeated by the Romans? 23. Who now obtained the vacant throne of 71. How was he treated? Macedon? 24. The confederate cities of the Achæan league? 72. The effect of the eclipse of the moon on the two armies? 73. How did the Romans treat the Achæans? 25. What led to a new revolution in Mace- 74. What led to the destruction of Corinth? don? 26. What led to the death of Pyrrhus ? 29. What revolution took place in Sparta ? 31. Conduct of Cleomenes? 32. By whom was he defeated? 33. What rekindled the flames of war? 35. Against whom was war now declared by 36. What commercial war was going on at the same time? 75. What is said of Athens? SEC. 2.-History of the Kingdom of Syria under the Seleucida. 1. What advantage did Seleucus gain by his victory over the satraps of Media and Persia? 2. What further additions did he make to 3. How far did he penetrate India? 5. The seat of his government? His end? 10. His successor? 51. The fate of Seleucus, his son ? 11. Mention the several wars in which he 52. How was he avenged? was engaged, and their results. 12. Why was his son and successor called Theos? 13. Why did he begin to lose the provinces of Upper Asia? 14. The conditions of his treaty with Ptolemy? 15. How did he suffer for fulfilling them? 16. Who succeeded him? 17. What war did his mother's crime bring on him? 18. Progress of Ptolemy? 19. What did he gain by this expedition ? 22. The fate of Seleucus? 23. To whom was Antiochus the Great indebted for his crown? 53. How did the Syrians treat the entire family, and why? 54. To whom did they offer their crown? 55. The fate of Tigranes? 56. The last of the Seleucidæ, and his fate? SEC. 3.-History of Egypt under the Ptolemies. 1. Who was the wisest statesman among the successors of Alexander? 2. How did he conduct himself in Egypt? 3. His patronage of literature? 4. What people flocked to Alexandria; and why? 5. What is the Septuagint, and why so called? 6. What works did he erect? 7. Describe the college of philosophy? 24. How was he deceived by his prime 8. Its reputation and permanence? minister? 25. How did the rebel forces act when An tiochus marched against them? 9. The material for writing previous to papyrus? 10. What is papyrus? 26. The fate of the prime minister and his 11. Its influence on literature? brothers? 27. In what wars was Antiochus now engaged? 28. In what important expedition did he engage, in conjunction with the Bactrian monarch? 29. Who prevented him from conquering Egypt? 12. Why was not parchment substituted for 13. How was Egypt strengthened? 30. On what occasion did the Romans a 18. second time interfere? 19. 31. By whom was he instigated to treat them with disdain ? 32. What battle laid him prostrate at their 33. Of what countries did they deprive him? 41. What treachery was practised toward 42. Who prevented him from taking his revenge? 43. What resolution did he now attempt to carry out? 44. The results of his wild project? 45. Who succeeded him? 46. Under what circumstances did he lose 47. The fate of the usurper Balas! 50. The vicissitudes of fortune he expe- What mission did he send to Rome? 20. Character and deeds of Ptolemy Ever- 21. Character of Ptolemy Philopater? 23. His folly at Jerusalem? 24. Of what crimes was he guilty? 28. His successor, and whom did he marry? SEC. 4.-History of the Minor Kingdoms in 1. The principal kingdoms formed from the 2. The history of Pergamus, and its kings? 3. What invention do we owe to them? 4. What became of their library? 5. The history of Bithynia? 6. The most illustrious monarch of Pontus? 7. His character? 8. With whom did he provoke a contest? 9. Of what act of cruelty was he guilty? 10. Of what Grecian city did he make him- 14. How did the war between the Parthians 20. His reverses, and return to his country? 23. 21. His misfortunes and death? 22. What is said of Cappadocia, and of its inbabitants? 23. What is said of the two Armenias? 24. What first gave celebrity to Rhodes? 25. Describe the siege. 26. What was erected in commemoration of this siege? 27. The conduct of the Rhodians in the war between Antiochus and the Romans? 28. How were they afterwards treated by the Romans? 29. What king attacked them? 30. Their conduct in the civil war between Pompey and Cæsar? 31. How were they treated by Cassius? 32. How, by Claudius Cæsar, and for what cause? 33. How, by Vespasian? SEC. 5.-History of Bactria and Parthia. The line between ancient and modern history, in Asiatic annals? SEC. 6-History of Idumea, and its Capital, Petra 1. From whom were the Edomites descended? 2. The advantages of their situation? 3. Its capital city, and its situation? 4. Describe it. 5. The prediction of Jeremiah? 6. The ports and commerce? 7. By whom were they subdued? 8. The Scripture account of Hadad? 9. With whom were the Edomites frequently at war? 10. Who were the Idumeans, and the Nabatheans? 1. In what respect did the Bactrian king- 13. dom differ from those described in the preceding sections? 14. How came the name of Idumean to become extinct? How was Petra ruined? 15 Recite the prophecy of Isaiab? SEC. 7.-History of the Jews, from their Return out of the Babylonish Captivity to the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. 1. How many Jews returned to their native land, after the decree of Cyrus? Their governor? 2. 3. The Jewish tradition relative to this return? 4. Application of the Samaritans ? 22 17. What work was completed under his directions? 18. What sect arose about this time? 19. Their doctrines? 20. What version of the Scriptures was made 21. Who attempted to Hellenize the Jews? 25. Conduct of Jason? 26. Of his brother Menelaus? 27. Cause of Onias' death? 28. Cause of the riot in Jerusalem? 29. How were the deputies to Antiochus treated? 30. How did the Syrians show their sense of this atrocity? 31. Conduct of Jason during the Syrian invasion of Egypt? 32. Antiochus' dreadful cruelty towards the Jews? 33. His awful profanity? 34. His edict, and its execution? 35. His cruelty towards the fugitive Jews? 38. How did the wars of the Maccabees 39. Whom did Mattathias appoint his suc cessor 40. The origin of the name," Maccabees." 41. Exploits of Judas Maccabeus? 42. How long had the temple been in the hands of the heathen? 43. Conduct of the Jewish army as it came in sight of Jerusalem ? 53. History of his successor, Alexander Jannæus ? 54. History of his two sons? 55. Conduct of Antipater? 56. To whom was the decision of the crown left ? 57. Conduct of Aristobulus? 58. Conduct of the Jews, after he left Jerusalem? 60. Who was now supreme in Jerusalem? 59. How did Pompey treat Jerusalem? 61. Conduct of Antipater? 62. 63. How was he rewarded by Cæsar? wars of the Romans after the death of 68. His successor, his history? 70. How did Pilate provoke a fresh insurrec- 71. The state of society in Judea during his administration ? 72. What forerunner of Christ now appeared 75. Wicked conduct of Herod Antipas ? 78. 79. How long after his resurrection did he How many persons were converted by 80. The disinterested conduct of the Chris- 44. The circumstances of the death of 87. Condition of Judea after his death? Judas? 45. His funeral? 46. His successor ? 47. What privilege did he obtain from the Syrian king? 48. The inscription on one of his coins, which has been preserved? 49. His death, and successor ? 50. Acts of his administration? 51. His treatment of the Pharisees? 52. His successor, and the cause death? 88. Who were the Sicarii? 89. Conduct of Felix? 91. Festus' treatment of St. Paul? 92. Conduct of Florus, the last governor of 93. Conduct of the Jews? 94. Why did the Christians retire to Pella, 95. Who was sent against the Jews? of his 96. The three parties in Jerusalem, and their dissensions? |