Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-07-26

modern HONS. There the young
Rameses II. attacked him, and fought
the battle immortalized by the en-
craving Of a court poets encomiastlc
narrative on wall at Karnak. Ram
eses seems to have prevailed so far
that he, stopped any further advance
of the Haiti towards, his own borders;
but when he made a treaty Of peace
and dalliance with Mutallu's successor.
Hattusil H. (whom he called Knit.
asar), its terms imply recognition OF
the other party's power as equal to
his own. Part of Hattusils CORE
spondence has come to light at Bog
haz-Keui. It includes precis of the
provisions of this very treaty, and
documents which show that the HAITI
king was still overload in Mesopo-
tamia and able to deal on a footing OF
secure independence with Babylon.
These records bring the history to
about 1850 B. C. We know something
of two more kings Of Boghaz-Keui,
making eight in all. The last
reigned on the eve of that great re-
vival on the Tigris, which would ul-
timately bring Assyria down to the
Mediterranean, and in his time the
Haiti empire was evidently decaying;
for there were kings in Syria, where
the monarch ON Boghaz-Keui had
once ruled alone. To this Syrian
part of the empire we know what
happened at the last. It was broken
up by the power of Nineveh In the
eighth century B. c. But how tho
empire dwindled and came to an end
in Asia Minor we can only guess.
Assyrian pressure was felt even there.
for at least, one Ninevite king raided
far across Taurus. From the oppo-
site side, the north, wild people, the
Muski, swept through the peninsula
and finally settled down In Phrygia.
probably freeing it. with all to west
ward, from the Cappadocian rule, and
certainly establishing monarchy
whose holders, under the names Cor.
,dias and Midas, loom large In early
Greek legend. The Greeks, finding
the coasts undefended which the Gre
tans OF Minos had not been able to
conquer, came over and colonized
them. Lydia rose last on the ruins Of
Phygia, and by this time the power
of Bobhaz.Keui was only name. To
Judge from the remains Of the city
so far uncovered, it had enjoyed a sec
ond spring at some period, perhaps
about 1000 B. c.; but this must have
been short. Greek literature makes
only one doubtful allusion to it In the
sixth century, and none at all to Its
former greatness. Yet, all forgotten
as it was by the people in whose
hands in chief the transmission OF
early history was to lie, the HAITI en-
pire had not existed in vain even for
the development of that same people.
Occupying for several centuries the
most vital part OF West Asia, through
which all the land routes between
east AID west must pass, the Haiti
had been the main agents through
whom the civilizing influences Of the
east had passed. Their art awakened
art in Phrygia and Lydia, and left its
mark on the first Greek handiwork in
Ionia. From their Photographic sys.
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phabetic characters still used in Hell.
lenised parts Of South and West Asia
Minor, in classical times. Their re-
ligion was the type religion OF Asia
Minor, and ultimately responsible for
those so-called "Anatoltan" features
which spread to Greece and through
Greece to Rome and the west. I'm.
compromprehended traditions and
memories OF their society inspired
severa! Greek stories, notably that OF
the Amazons, one of whom-perhaps
the divine queen of them all-is carved
on a gate post at Boghaz-Keui itself.
AS in these latter years Crete has
shown us much foundation in fact
there was for, some OF the strangest
myths OF Hellas. so. IL less degree,
has Boghaz-Keui It has much more
yet to tell us, for not It's tenth part
has been excavated; and nothing Is
to be desired more earnestly than that
its exploration should be resumed.