Identifier: storyofgreatestn01elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Babylonia—Hammurabi the Benefactor 21 Did Abraham, who belonged by birth to the Euphrates region, perhaps toBabylon itself, know that he was striking a blow for his fellow countrymen?Whether he did or no, such was the actual, we might almost say the world-alter-ing, result of his attack. Among the subject kings who attended Chedorlaomerwas one whom the Bible calls Amraphel, and whom the Babylonian recordsenable us to identify with some confidence as Hammurabi, one of Bab>loniasmonarchs. Hammurabi took advantage of this hour of failure, or perhaps someother similar one, to rebel against Chedorlaomer. Babylon threw off the yokeof Elam, and after a long war estabhshed herself as the protector as well as thearmed master of all the cities of the Euphrates valley. So thorough!)- didHammurabi consolidate his power that thereafter the entire region becameknown as Babylonia, the land of Babylon. The names of Sumer and Accad passout of history. That of Babylonia takes their place. In the s

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