History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12)

CHAPTER I--THE FIRST CHALDÆAN EMPIRE AND THE HYKSÔS IN EGYPT

_Syria: the part played by it in the ancient world--Babylon and the first Chaldæan empire--The dominion of the Hyksôs: Âhmosis._

Some countries seem destined from their origin to become the battle-fields of the contending nations which environ them. Into such regions, and to their cost, neighbouring peoples come from...