Identifier: greatestnations03elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Trajans return to Romeby a triumph and splendid games which lasted for four months. Trajans appetite for foreign conquest was whetted by his success, and in106 he again set out for the East. Landing in Syria, he moved northward,receiving the submission of numerous princes on the way, and occupying Ar-menia, which he made a province of the Empire. Though he was busy for thesucceeding seven years, we have no clear record of what he did. Once morehe went to Syria in 115, his objective point being the Parthian empire.Its capital hardly offered the semblance of resistance, and he descended theTigris subduing the tribes on both banks, and being the first and only Roman■ general to navigate the Persian Gulf. When he returned, he found it necessaryto re-conquer Mesopotamia, North Syria, and Arabia, and he did it more thor-oughly than before. By this time he was in a sad bodily condition from dropsyand paralysis, and, while on the return to Italy, died at Selinus, in Cilicia, inAugust, 117.
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VESPASIAN PLANNING THE COLOSSEUM Rome—Hadrian Limits the Empire 425 Although so much of Trajans reign was taken up with his military cam-paigns, his administration of civil affairs was admirable. Equal justice wassecured to all; the imperial finances were greatly improved, and peculation onthe part of public officers was severely punished. One of the fads of the Ro-man emperors was the improvement and beautifying of Rome, and none didmore thorough work in that respect than Trajan. The Empire was traversedin all directions by military routes; canals and bridges were built, new townsarose, the Via Appia was restored, the Pontine Marshes partially drained, the Forum Trajani erected, and the harbor of Civita Vecchia constructed. Astriking proof of the sincerity of this Emperors labors to improve the conditionof his subjects was shown in the wish, which it became the fashion formally toutter, on the accession of each of his successors : May he be happier thanAugustus, better than Trajan.

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