General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.
General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.
Emil Reich
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One of them, subsequently Psammetichus L, contrived, by the aid of Gyges, King of Lydia, to free Egypt firom the Assjoian yoke, and also to defeat local "kings" in that country ; so that under him and his successors Egypt was again united, until it fell into the hands of the Persians under Cambyses, 525 B.C. The influx of Greeks under Psammetichus and his successors went ^ One of the kings of this dynasty was Shishak, the friend of Jeroboam. Digitized by Google 132 GENERAL HISTORY bk. on increa...sing; the Egyptians, however, far from assimilating Hellenic culture, became more forbidding and exclusive than ever. Their civilisation adapted itself neither to lasting conquest nor to assimilation of foreign peoples. From the time of the Persian conquest of Egypt the history of this country becomes almost entiiely provincial. We have hitherto not yet spoken of the State and its organisation in ancient Egypt. Our knowledge of this vital institution of a people is not very ex- tensive. Yet so much may be said with certainty, that the State in Egypt formed, with the excep- tion perhaps of a period of oligarchic supremacy of a few Egyptian "nobles" during the twelfth and thirteenth dynasties, an absolutism as complete and as bureaucratic as there ever has been.
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