David G. Downey, General Editor WEEK-DAY SCHOOL SERIES

GEORGE HERBERT BETTS, Editor

CONTENTS

LESSON

PAGE

22

I. THE LANDS WE SHALL STUDY...

9

II. ASIA, THE CONTINENT OF CONTRASTS.

16

III. LIFE AND ITS CONDITIONS IN ASIA....

IV. MESOPOTAMIA, THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS 29

V. LIFE ON THE STEPPES OF MESOPOTAMIA

40

VI. MESOPOTAMIA'S DATES AND OTHER PRODUCTS.. 48

VII. ANCIENT CIVILIZATION ÎN LOWER MESOPOTAMIA

55

VIII. ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN UPPER MESOPOTAMIA.. 62

IX. ANCIENT AND MODERN TRADE ROUTES OF MESO-

POTAMIA.

68

X. PERSIA AND ITS PEOPLE..

75

XI. SYRIA-THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE.

83

XII. SYRIA-PEOPLE AND PLACES....

88

XIII. SYRIA-TRADE CENTERS AND ROUTES.

95

XIV. A “PECULIAR PEOPLE"

102

XV. THE HOLY LAND OF THE “PECULIAR PEOPLE”.. 109

XVI. PALESTINE–GALILEE AND SAMARIA.

115

XVII. PALESTINE, ITS CLIMATE, RESOURCES, AND PROD-

UCTS....

XVIII. JUDÆA, A LAND OF HILLTOPS..

129

XIX. VILLAGE LIFE IN PALESTINE..

140

XX. VILLAGE LIFE IN PALESTINE. THE PEOPLE ... 148

XXI. ARABIA, ITS PRODUCTS AND CENTERS OF TRADE 155

XXII. THE PEOPLE OF ARABIA .

161

XXIII. THE SACRED PLACES IN ARABIA .

168

XXIV. TRANSPORTATION IN ARABIA.

176

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XXV. EGYPT, THE GIFT OF THE NILE RIVER..

XXVI. ARMENIA..

188

XXVII. ARMENIA, A NATION WITHOUT A COUNTRY
, A

194

XXVIII. ASIA MINOR, THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN Two

CONTINENTS..

199

XXIX. Asia MINOR, A LAND OF UNDEVELOPED RE-

SOURCES.

206

XXX. Asia MINOR, THE LAND OF YESTERDAY AND To-

MORROW.

XXXI. GREECE...

219

XXXII. ITALY ....

225

REFERENCE Lists

233

GLOSSARY..

235

INDEX.

241

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