The Origin of Nations: in Two Parts: On Early Civilisations. On Ethnic ...
The Origin of Nations: in Two Parts: On Early Civilisations. On Ethnic ...
Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
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i. p. 260). Digitized by VjOOQIC ;f^^:7v^:mi^,'' r^'^^' ^\ \^ ■ . CivUizationa of Central Asia. 99 for human life. They had domesticated certain animals, as the horse, the cow, and the dog. They knew how to extract an exhilarating liquor from the Soma or Homa plant, the acid Asclepias or Sarco- sterna viminalis. They lived peaceably together, and recognized the supremacy of law. They had formed the conception of poetry, and, while some could frame, the generality could appreciate the beauty of ...metrical compositions. Above all, they had a religion, which was surprisingly pure and elevated,* consisting mainly in the worship of a single su- preme Grod, an all-wise, all-bounteous Spirit, Ahura- mazda. The cultivation thus begun about B.C. 1500 in the far-off and little-known Bactria, received a fresh impulse towards the middle of the ninth century B.C., when the Iranians first came into contact with the Assyrians, f Migratory movements had by this time brought the Medes into the district which thenceforth bore their name, and having thus become neighbours of the Assyrians, whose civili- zation was already advanced, they could not but gain something from their novel experience.
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