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This e-book contains the complete makers of history written by Jacob Abbott. The following was from Abraham Lincoln regarding this series.
Abraham Lincoln: I want to thank you and your brother for Abbotts series of Histories. I have not education enough to appreciate the profound works of voluminous historians, and if I had, I have no time to read them. But your series of Histories gives me, in brief compass, just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have.
Table of Contents
About the Author
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
CYRUS THE GREAT
DARIUS THE GREAT
XERXES
THE ANCIENT GREECE
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
PYRRHUS
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
ROMULUS
HANNIBAL
JULIUS CAESAR
CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EGYPT
NERO
ENGLAND
ALFRED THE GREAT
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
KING RICHARD I
KING RICHARD II
KING RICHARD III.
MARGARET OF ANJOU
QUEEN ELIZABETH
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
KING CHARLES I
KING CHARLES II
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
PETER THE GREAT
THE MONGOL EMPIRE
GENGHIS KHAN

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Makers of History

By Jacob Abbott


Digital Edition Published by Stingray, 2013

About the Author

Jacob Abbott November 14 1803 October 31 1879 was an American writer of - photo 1 Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books.

Abbott was born in Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.

He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.

His Rollo Books , such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe , etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home , The History of Sandford and Merton , and The Parent's Assistant .

His brothers, John Stevens Cabot Abbott and Gorham Dummer Abbott, were also authors. His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott, a clergyman, were also well-known authors.

It was not until about 1848 that he and his brother embarked on the idea of doing a series of biography aimed at young people. Within a few years of their publication, the Abbott biographies became standard reference works of juvenile history. They were originally published as the Illustrated History series, and republished in the early 1900s as the Makers of History series.

Abraham Lincoln: "I want to thank you and your brother for Abbotts series of Histories. I have not education enough to appreciate the profound works of voluminous historians, and if I had, I have no time to read them. But your series of Histories gives me, in brief compass, just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have."

THE PERSIAN EMPIRE

CYRUS THE GREAT Preface One special object which the author of this - photo 2

CYRUS THE GREAT

Preface One special object which the author of this series has had in view - photo 3

Preface

One special object which the author of this series has had in view, in the plan and method which he has followed in the preparation of the successive volumes, has been to adapt them to the purposes of text-books in schools. The study of a general compend of history, such as is frequently used as a text-book, is highly useful, if it comes in at the right stage of education, when the mind is sufficiently matured, and has acquired sufficient preliminary knowledge to understand and appreciate so condensed a generalization as a summary of the whole history of a nation contained in an ordinary volume must necessarily be. Without this degree of maturity of mind, and this preparation, the study of such a work will be, as it too frequently is, a mere mechanical committing to memory of names, and dates, and phrases, which awaken no interest, communicate no ideas, and impart no useful knowledge to the mind.

A class of ordinary pupils, who have not yet become much acquainted with history, would, accordingly, be more benefited by having their attention concentrated, at first, on detached and separate topics, such as those which form the subjects, respectively, of these volumes. By studying thus fully the history of individual monarchs, or the narratives of single events, they can go more fully into detail; they conceive of the transactions described as realities; their reflecting and reasoning powers are occupied on what they read; they take notice of the motives of conduct, of the gradual development of character, the good or ill desert of actions, and of the connection of causes and consequences, both in respect to the influence of wisdom and virtue on the one hand, and, on the other, of folly and crime. In a word, their minds and hearts are occupied instead of merely their memories. They reason, they sympathize, they pity, they approve, and they condemn. They enjoy the real and true pleasure which constitutes the charm of historical study for minds that are mature; and they acquire a taste for truth instead of fiction, which will tend to direct their reading into proper channels in all future years.

The use of these works, therefore, as text-books in classes, has been kept continually in mind in the preparation of them. The running index on the tops of the pages is intended to serve instead of questions. These captions can be used in their present form as topics , in respect to which, when announced in the class, the pupils are to repeat substantially what is said on the page; or, on the other hand, questions in form, if that mode is preferred, can be readily framed from them by the teacher. In all the volumes, a very regular system of division is observed, which will greatly facilitate the assignment of lessons.

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CYRUS'S HUNTING

THE SIEGE OF SARDIS

RAISING JEREMIAH FROM THE DUNGEON

Chapter I Herodotus and Xenophon BC 550-401 The Persian monarchy - photo 4


Chapter I. Herodotus and Xenophon

B.C. 550-401

The Persian monarchy.
Singular principle of human nature.

C yrus was the founder of the ancient Persian empirea monarchy, perhaps, the most wealthy and magnificent which the world has ever seen. Of that strange and incomprehensible principle of human nature, under the influence of which vast masses of men, notwithstanding the universal instinct of aversion to control, combine, under certain circumstances, by millions and millions, to maintain, for many successive centuries, the representatives of some one great family in a condition of exalted, and absolute, and utterly irresponsible ascendency over themselves, while they toil for them, watch over them, submit to endless and most humiliating privations in their behalf, and commit, if commanded to do so, the most inexcusable and atrocious crimes to sustain the demigods they have thus made in their lofty estate, we have, in the case of this Persian monarchy, one of the most extraordinary exhibitions.

Grandeur of the Persian monarchy.
Its origin.

The Persian monarchy appears, in fact, even as we look back upon it from this remote distance both of space and of time, as a very vast wave of human power and grandeur. It swelled up among the populations of Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, about five hundred years before Christ, and rolled on in undiminished magnitude and glory for many centuries. It bore upon its crest the royal line of Astyages and his successors. Cyrus was, however, the first of the princes whom it held up conspicuously to the admiration of the world and he rode so gracefully and gallantly on the lofty crest that mankind have given him the credit of raising and sustaining the magnificent billow on which he was borne. How far we are to consider him as founding the monarchy, or the monarchy as raising and illustrating him, will appear more fully in the course of this narrative.

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