The Five Empires
Subtitle: An Outline Of Ancient History
Publisher: James Burns
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: ANTEDILUVIAN AGE.; title: The two races — Lamech — Enoch — Flood 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: THE EARTH PEOPLED; title: Nimrod — Babel 8; title: CHAPTER III.; title: THE ASSYRIAN, OR FIRST GREAT EMPIRE.; title: Nimrod — Semiramis — Sardanapalus 12; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. 17; title: CHAPTER V.; title: HISTORY OF EGYPT.; title: Origin of its inhabitants — Sesostris — Pyramids — Necho 20; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: THE EXODUS OF ISRAEL.; title: Israel's typical character — The law — Preparation for Christ's Church 27; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: ISRAEL — ITS JUDGES, PROPHETS, AND KINGS.; title: Samson — Samuel — Schools of the prophets — Solomon — Commerce of Tyre — Petra — Edom — Ports on the Red Sea — Balbec and Tadmor — Temple — Solomon's sins and punishment 31; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: ISRAEL AND JUDAH.; title: Jeroboam — New mode of worship — Ahab — Elijah — Captivity of Israel — Election passes to Judah   43; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: ASSYRIAN EMPIRE RESTORED.; title: Hezekiah — Isaiah — Prophets — Chaldees — Babylon — its commerce and splendour — Captivity of Judah — Tyre — Apries — Prophecy of the Five Empires  49; title: CHAPTER X.; title: PERSIAN, OR SECOND GREAT EMPIRE.; title: Cyrus — Croesus — Oracle at Delphi — Babylon taken — Daniel — Temple restored — Cambyses — Smerdis the Magian — Darius Hystasnes — Scythian expedition 63; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: GRECIAN, OR THIRD GREAT EMPIRE.; title: Office of the Third Empire — Character of the Greeks — their independence — their connexion — Homer — Sparta — Object and measures of Lycurgus — Xerxes' expedition against Greece — Numbers of his army — Thermopylae — Athenian character — Solon — Pisistratus — Wooden walls — Themistocles — Salamis — Plataea — Consequences of the Persian expedition   73; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: ATHENIAN ATTEMPT AT ESTABLISHING THE GRECIAN EMPIRE.; title: Spartans unfit for rule — Aristides — Athens fortified — Allies rendered dependent — Athenian and Spartan alliance — Peloponnesian war— Brasidas — Alcibiades — Sicilian expedition — Egospotamos — Athens taken 98; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF THE GRECIAN PHILOSOPHERS.; title: Attempt to improve man's character — Poetry and the arts — their little effect — Plague At Athens — The Sophists — Pythagoras — Ionic school — Socrates — the four schools of his disciples — Plato — Philosophy fails of raising human nature 100; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND — THEBES AIMS AT THE EMPIRE OF GREECE.; title: State of Persia — Ezra— Old Testament completed — Cyrus the younger — Battle of Cunaxa — Persian treachery — Xenophon —Return of Greeks — Agesilaus— Thebes — Epaminondas — Improvement in the art of war — Leuctra — Laconia ravaged — Man tinea. 109; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD EMPIRE — ALEXANDER THE GREAT.; title: Philip of Macedon — Alexander — Daniel's prophecy — Invasion of Asia — Battle of Granicus — Issus — Tyre taken — Arbela — Bactria and India invaded — Alexander's plans, and death 115; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS.; title: The "four notable horns" — Jews — Septuagint — Antiochus Epiphanes — Maccabees — Antiochus stopped by the Romans 122; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: ROMAN, OR FOURTH GREAT EMPIRE.; title: Early constitution — Patricians — Plebeians — Invasion of Gaul — Punic wars — Hannibal — Wars with Alexander's successors — Roman character impaired — Gracchi — Marius — Sylla— Pompey — Julius Caesar — Augustus — Universal empire — Peace throughout the Roman world 127; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: OUR LORD'S COMING — THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.; title: Prophecies fulfilled — Our Lord's birth — Wise men — Herod — Our Lord as Prophet, Priest, and King — His Empire, wherein like the four preceding ones — Means of admission into it — Prophecies of its durability 145; title: CHAPTER XIX.; title: THE APOSTLES — THE CHURCH ESTABLISHED.; title: Faith of the Apostles — Day of Pentecost — Gospel first preached to Jews — Gentile converts — Council at Jerusalem — Two orders of ministers besides the college of Apostles — St. James — St. Paul at Athens and Rome — Pastoral epistles — Question whether the Jewish system would continue — decided by destruction of Jerusalem — Jews banished Palestine — Meeting of Apostles in Judaea — Universal establishment of the order of Bishops 154; title: CHAPTER XX.; title: APOSTOLIC MEN  — THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST EXTENDED; title: Difficulties of the first successors of the Apostles — Our Lord's presence with His Church — Unity the sustaining principle of His kingdom — St. Clement — St. Ignatius — Reasons for unity — maintained by community in worship and ordinances — Martyrdom of St Ignatius — The Christian city — Christian patriotism — Hegesippus — Gnostics opposed by testimony of early Church — Irenseus — Great importance of Church-system in the infancy of Christ's kingdom — The Church of England appeals to its authority — Rapid advance of the Fifth Empire — Concord within, and outward protection 168; title: CHAPTER XXI.; title: THE CHURCH'S VICTORY — CONSTANTINE — THE FIFTH KINGDOM; title: Reign of Diocletian — Marcellus — Persecution — Martyrs in Palestine — Constantine — Vision of the Cross — the worldly power chosen to behold it — Christ's kingdom established 193; title: CHAPTER XXII.; title: THE CHURCH-SYSTEM CEMENTED — THE CREEDS; title: Interval of tranquillity — Arian controversy — Constantine — Vain effort to obviate discussion — Council summoned at Nice — Arians silenced — their political intrigues — Theodosius — Council of Constantinople — Approach of barbarians — impending destruction of the Roman Empire — its final homage to the Fifth Empire — Close of Ancient History 207