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[email protected] BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, July 1898 Original Copyright 1898 by Samuel Hardin. 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE EMPIRE AFTER AUGUSTUS ................................ 97 THE CHRISTIANS AND THE EMPIRE ......................... 100 THE PENINSULA OF ITALY ........................................... 4 THE REMAINS OF ROME .......................................... 103 ROMULUS AND THE BEGINNING OF ROME .................. 7 SUMMARIES OF CHAPTERS ...................................... 109 NUMA, THE PEACEFUL KING ..................................... 10 CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE ..................................... 114 THE LAST OF THE KINGS ........................................... 13 THE WAR WITH LARS PORSENA ............................... 16 THE STORIES OF MUCIUS AND CLOELIA ................... 19 SECESSION OF THE PLEBEIANS .................................. 21 THE STORY OF CORIOLANUS ..................................... 24 THE FAMILY OF THE FABII ........................................ 27 THE VICTORY OF CINCINNATUS ................................ 29 THE LAWS OF THE TWELVE TABLES ........................ 32 HOW CAMILLUS CAPTURED VEII .............................. 34 THE COMING OF THE GAULS ..................................... 37 THE GAULS IN ROME ................................................. 40 REBUILDING THE CITY .............................................. 43 THE NEW ROME ......................................................... 47 THE WAR WITH PYRRHUS ......................................... 51 ROME AND THE CARTHAGINIANS .............................. 55 THE WAR WITH HANNIBAL ....................................... 59 THE ROMAN FORUM. ROME CONQUERS THE WORLD ................................. 64 THE GRACCHI AND THEIR MOTHER ......................... 68 THE WARS OF CAIUS MARIUS ................................... 71 CICERO, THE ORATOR ............................................... 75 JULIUS CAESAR, THE CONQUEROR OF GAUL ........... 80 CAESAR AND THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE ......... 86 ROME IN THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS ............................ 91 Original Copyright 1898 by Samuel Hardin. 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 CHAPTER I of air from the deserts of Africa. In this way, the winters are made milder, and the summers warmer, than with us, so that the orange and the olive grow there, where the people of our THE PENINSULA OF ITALY own country raise the pear and the apple. If you will look at a map of Europe, you will see three great peninsulas extending from its southern coast into the Mediterranean Sea. The one which lies farthest to the east is the peninsula of Greece; you may have read of its beautiful scenery, and the brave people who lived there in olden times. The peninsula farthest to the west, with the Atlantic Ocean washing its rocky coast, is Spain. The land lying between the two is Italy; and it was there that a great people lived, many centuries ago, whose story you are now to read. These three peninsulas of southern Europe differ greatly from one another in shape and size. The Grecian peninsula is not nearly so large as that of Spain or Italy, and it has a number of smaller peninsulas running out into the surrounding seas like the stubby fingers of a great hand. Spain is the largest of the three, and it is almost square in shape, with few bays and capes along its coast-line. Italy, which lies between the two in position, is also between the two in size and shape. It is larger than Greece, and smaller than Spain, and its coast line is neither so broken as that of the former, nor so regular as that of the latter. In shape, Italy is long and slender, and very much like a huge boot. On the map you will see it lying in the midst of the Mediterranean, with its toe to the south and its heel to the east; and if you will look closely you will see that there is a great spur, too, upon the back of the boot, but, instead of being placed on the heel, it has slipped far up on the ankle. The peninsula of Italy lies about as far north on the The surface of Italy varies greatly in different parts of earth's surface as the State of New York, but it has a very the peninsula. In the northern part, between the steep wall of different climate from that which is found in this latitude in the Alps and the mountains to the south of them, lies a broad, America. To the north of it lies a high chain of mountains, well-watered plain, larger than the State of Indiana. Here we which protect its sunny plains from the cold northern winds; find the most fertile land in all Europe, where grow great while the sea that lies around it is warmed by the hot currents fields of wheat and other grain, and groves of waving Original Copyright 1898 by Samuel Hardin. 4 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 mulberry trees. Here, too, is to be found the largest river of Sometimes, after the rains have begun to fall, or when the Italy the River Po which draws its waters from the melting snow is melting on the tops of the mountains, they are rushing snows of the Alps and flows eastward to the Adriatic Sea. torrents which sweep everything before them. Then, again, South of the basin of the Po, we come to a belt of when the summer heats have come, and the rains have ceased, mountains again. These are the Apennines. They are not nearly they shrink to little harmless streams, or dry up altogether. The so high as the snowy Alps, but still they are higher in many only river, south of the basin of the Po, which is deep enough places than the tallest peaks of our Appalachians. From where to bear boats and small ships all the year around is the Tiber. they leave the Alps, the Apennines sweep eastward almost This river rises in the Apennines, where they bend to the across the peninsula; then they gradually curve to the south; it follows a long course through the plains, and then flows into the Mediterranean about half-way down the western southward and extend to the very toe of the peninsula. This same range appears again in Sicily, and forms the backbone of side of the peninsula. The waters of even this longer river vary that island. Among these mountains we may see many lofty greatly at different seasons of the year, and its swift current is peaks, covered to the very top with forests of chestnut, oak and so often muddied with floods from rains and melting snows pine.

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