Free Audio History Books: Iraq

1 7 Great Monarchies Of Ancient Eastern World, V1-5 of 7: Chaldaea History, Geography, & Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, ... Persian Empire: With Maps & Illustrations by Rawlinson 1812-1902 90
1,544 25:44.

2 1904 Darius Great Makers of History by Abbott 637 10:37.

3 1904 Babylonian & Assyrian Laws, Contracts & Letters by Johns 610 10:10.

4 1889 History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson 608 10:08.

5 1700s Shorter Novels, 1700s History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: Castle of Otranto, Gothic Story: Va k, an Arabian Tale by Johnson 504 8:04.

6 1902 Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott 252 4:12. $1

7 1904 Cyrus Great Makers of History by Abbott 243 4:03.

8 1905 Oldest Code of Laws in World: code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon 2285 - 42 by Hammurabi 83 2:23.

9 1906 Religion of Babylonia & Assyria by Pinches 118 1:58.

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1 7 Great Monarchies Of Ancient Eastern World, V1-5 of 7: Chaldaea History, Geography, & Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, ... Persian Empire: With Maps & Illustrations by Rawlinson 1,544 25:44.

1904 Darius Great Makers of History
by Abbott, Jacob
59,264W 637 10:37

1 CAMBYSES

2 END OF CAMBYSES

3 SMERDIS MAGIAN

4 ACCESSION OF DARIUS

5 PROVINCES

6 RECONNOITERING OF GREECE

7 REVOLT OF BABYLON

8 INVASION OF SCYTHIA

9 RETREAT FROM SCYTHIA

10 STORY OF HISTIÆUS

11 INVASION OF GREECE

12 DEATH OF DARIUS.

1904 Babylonian & Assyrian Laws, Contracts & Letters
by C. H. W. Claude Hermann Walter Johns
152,532W 610 10:10

1 Laws & Contracts

2 Earliest Babylonian Laws

3 Code Of Ḥammurabi

4 Later Babylonian Law

5 Social Organization Of Ancient Babylonian State

6 Judges, Law-Courts, & Legal Processes

7 Legal Decisions

8 Public Rights

9 Criminal Law

10 Family Organization

11 Courtship & Marriage

12 Divorce & Desertion

13 Rights Of Widows

14 Obligations & Rights Of Children

15 Education & Early Life Of Children

16 Adoption

17 Rights Of Inheritance

18 Slavery

19 L& Tenure In Babylonia

20 Army, Corvée, & O r Claims For Personal Service

21 Functions & Organization Of Temple

22 Donations & Bequests

23 Sales

24 Loans & Deposits

25 Pledges & Guarantees

26 Wages Of Hired Laborers

27 Lease Of Property

28 Laws Of Trade

29 Partnership & Power Of Attorney

30 Accounts & Business Documents

2 Babylonian & Assyrian Letters

1 Letters & Letter-Writing Among Babylonians & Assyrians

2 Letters Of Ḥammurabi

3 Letters Of Samsu-Iluna & His Immediate Successors

4 Private Letters Of 1st Dynasty Of Babylon

5 Sennacherib's Letters To His Fa r, Sargon

6 Letters From Last Year Of Shamash-Shum-Ukîn

7 Letters Regarding Affairs In Sou rn Babylonia

8 Letters About Elam & Sou rn Babylonia

9 Miscellaneous Assyrian Letters

10 Letters Of 2nd Babylonian Empire

3 Appendix

1 Prologue & Epilogue To Code Of Ḥammurabi

2 Chronology

3 Weights & Measures

4 Bibliography Of Later Periods.

4 1889 History of Phoenicia
by Rawlinson, George
151,922W 608 10:08

1 L&

2 CLIMATE & PRODUCTIONS

3 PEOPLE, ORIGIN & CHARACTERISTICS

4 CITIES

5 COLONIES

6 ARCHITECTURE

7 ÆS TIC ART

8 INDUSTRIAL ART & MANUFACTURES

9 SHIPS, NAVIGATION, & COMMERCE

10 MINING

11 RELIGION

12 DRESS, ORNAMENTS, & SOCIAL HABITS

13 PHOENICIAN WRITING, LANGUAGE, & LITERATURE

14 POLITICAL HISTORY

1 Phoenicia, before establishment of hegemony of Tyre

2 1252 - 877 Phoenicia under hegemony of Tyre

3 Phoenicia during period of its subjection to Assyria

4 Phoenicia during its struggles with Babylon & Egypt

5 528 - 333 Phoenicia under Persians

6 333 - 23 Phoenicia in time of Alex&er Great

7 323 - 65 Phoenicia under Greeks

8 65 BC - 650 AD Phoenicia under Romans.

5 Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story: Va k, an Arabian Tale
by Johnson, Samuel, Walpole, Horace, Beckford, William
125,961W 504 8:04

1 HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA By Samuel Johnson

2 CASTLE OF OTRANTO, A GOTHIC STORY. By Horace Walpole

3 VA K, AN ARABIAN TALE. By William Beckford.

1902 Xerxes Makers of History
by Abbott, Jacob
63,080W 252 4:12

1 MO R OF XERXES

2 EGYPT & GREECE

3 DEBATE ON PROPOSED INVASION OF GREECE

4 PREPARATIONS FOR INVASION OF GREECE

5 CROSSING OF HELLESPONT

6 REVIEW OF ARMY AT DORISCUS

7 PREPARATIONS OF GREEKS FOR DEFENSE

8 ADVANCE OF XERXES INTO GREECE

9 BATTLE OF RMOPYLÆ

10 BURNING OF A NS

11 BATTLE OF SALAMIS

12 RETURN TO PERSIA.

1904 Cyrus Great Makers of History
by Abbott, Jacob
60,780W 243 4:03

1 HERODOTUS & XENOPHON

2 BIRTH OF CYRUS

3 VISIT TO MEDIA

4 CRŒSUS

5 ACCESSION OF CYRUS TO THRONE

6 ORACLES

7 CONQUEST OF LYDIA

8 CONQUEST OF BABYLON

9 RESTORATION OF JEWS

10 STORY OF PAN A

11 CONVERSATIONS

12 DEATH OF CYRUS.

1905 Oldest Code of Laws in World code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242
by Hammurabi & C. H. W. Claude Hermann Walter Johns
20,859W 83 2:23.

9 Religion of Babylonia & Assyria
by Pinches, ophilus Goldridge
29,407W 118 1:58

1 RELIGION OF BABYLONIANS & ASSYRIANS

2 BABYLONIAN STORY OF CREATION

3 PRINCIPAL GODS OF BABYLONIANS & ASSYRIANS

4 DEMONS: EXORCISMS & CEREMONIES.

1 Seven Great Monarchies Of Ancient Eastern World, V1-5 of 7

Chaldaea History, Geography, & Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, ... Persian Empire: With Maps & Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George 386,000W 1,544 25:44

1 V1/7 Chaldaea
56,706W 227 3:47

1 GENERAL VIEW OF COUNTRY

2 CLIMATE & PRODUCTIONS

3 PEOPLE

4 LANGUAGE & WRITING

5 ARTS & SCIENCES

6 MANNERS & CUSTOMS

7 RELIGION

8 HISTORY & CHRONOLOGY

2 V3/7 Media
44,778W 179 2:59

1 DESCRIPTION OF COUNTRY

2 CLIMATE & PRODUCTIONS

3 CHARACTER, MANNERS & CUSTOMS

4 RELIGION

5 LANGUAGE & WRITING

6 CHRONOLOGY & HISTORY

3 V4/7 Babylon
62,325W 249 4:09

1 EXTENT OF EMPIRE

2 CLIMATE & PRODUCTIONS

3 PEOPLE

4 CAPITAL

5 ARTS & SCIENCES

6 MANNERS & CUSTOMS

7 RELIGION

8 HISTORY & CHRONOLOGY

9 APPENDIX

1 ST&ARD INSCRIPTION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR

2 ON MEANINGS OF BABYLONIAN NAMES

4 V5/7 Persia
119,122W 476 7:56

1 EXTENT OF EMPIRE

2 CLIMATE & PRODUCTIONS

3 CHARACTER, MANNERS & CUSTOMS

4 LANGUAGE & WRITING

5 ARCHITECTURE & O R ARTS

6 RELIGION

7 CHRONOLOGY & HISTORY

5 V6/7 Parthia 103,217W 413 6:53

1 Geography of Parthia Proper

2 Character of Region

3 Climate

4 Character of Surrounding Countries

1 Early notices of Parthians.

2 ir Ethnic character & connections.

3 ir position under Persian Monarchs, from Cyrus Great to Darius 3

1 Condition of Western Asia under earlier Seleucidce.

2 Revolts of Bactria & Parthia.

3 Conflicting accounts of establishment of Parthian Kingdom.

4 1st War with Syria.

1 Consolidation of Parthian Kingdom.

2 Death of Tiridates & accession of Arsaces 3

3 Attack on Media.

4 War of Arsaces 3 with Antiochus Great. Period of inaction.

5 Great development of Bactrian power.

6 Reigns of Arsaces 4 & 5

1 Reign of Mithridates 1

2 Position of Bactria & Syria at his accession.

3 His first war with Bactria.

4 His great Expedition against Eastern Syrian provinces, & its results.

5 His second war with Bactria, terminating in its conquest.

6 Extent of his Empire.

7 Attempt of Demetrius Nicator to recover lost Provinces fails.

8 Captivity of Demetrius.

9 Death of Mithridates.

1 System of government established by Mithridates 1

2 Constitution of Parthians.

3 Government of Provinces.

4 Laws & Institutions.

5 Character of Mithridates 1

1 Reign of Phraates 2

2 Expedition of Antiochus Sidetes against Parthia.

3 Release of Demetrius.

4 Defeat & Death of Sidetes.

5 War of Phraates with Nor rn Nomads.

6 His death & character.

1 Accession of Artabanus 2

2 Position of Parthia.

3 Growing pressure upon her, & general advance towards south, of Saka or Scyths.

4 Causes & extent of movement.

5 Character & principal tribes of Saka

6 Scythic war of Artabanus.

7 His death.

1 Accession of Mithridates 2

2 Termination of Scythic Wars.

3 Commencement of struggle with Armenia

4 Previous history of Armenia.

5 Result of 1st Armenian War.

6 First contact of Rome with Parthia.

7 Attitude of Rome towards East at this time.

8 2nd Armenian War.

9 Death of Mithridates.

1 Dark period of Parthian History.

2 Doubtful succession of Monarchs.

3 76 BC Accession of Sanatrceces

4 Position of Parthia during Mithridatic Wars

5 Accession of Phraates 3

6 His relations with Pompey.

7 His death.

8 Civil War between his 2 sons, Mithridates & Orodes.

9 Death of Mithridates.

1 Accession of Orodes 1

2 Expedition of Crassus.

3 His fate.

4 Retaliatory inroad of Parthians into Syria under Pacorus, son of Orodes.

5 Defeat of Pacorus by Cassius.

6 His recall.

7 End of 1st War with Rome

1 Relations of Orodes with Pompey, & with Brutus & Cassius.

22 nd War with Rome.

3 Great Parthian Expedition against Syria, Palestine, & Asia Minor.

4 Defeat of Saxa.

5 Occupation of Antioch & Jerusalem.

6 Parthians driven out of Syria by Ventidius.

7 Death of Pacorus.

8 Death of Orodes.

1 Reign of Phraates 4

2 His cruelties.

3 Flight of Monceses to Antony.

4 Antony's great Parthian Expedition, or Invasion of Media Atropatene.

5 Its Complete Failure.

6 Subsequent Alliance of Median King with Antony.

7 War between Parthia & Media.

8 Rebellion raised against Phraates by Tiridates.

9 Phraates expelled.

10 He recovers his Throne with help of Scythians.

11 His dealings with Augustus.

12 His death & Character.

1 Short reigns of Phraataces, Orodes 2, & Vonones 1

2 Accession of Artabanus 3

3 His relations with Germanicus & Tiberius.

4 His War with Pharasmanes of Iberia.

5 His First Expulsion from his Kingdom, & return to it.

6 His peace with Rome.

7 Internal troubles of Parthian Kingdom.

8 Second Expulsion & return of Artabanus

9 His Death.

1 Doubts as to successor of Artabanus 3

21 st short reign of Gotarzes.

3 He is expelled & Vardanes made king.

4 Reign of Vardanes.

5 His ivar with Izates.

6 His Death.

7 2nd reign of Gotarzes.

8 Contest with his Nephew, Meherdates.

9 His Death.

10 Short & inglorious reign of Vonones 2

1 Reign of Volagases 1

21 st attempt on Armenia fails.

3 His quarrel with Izates.

4 Invasion of Parthia Proper by Dahce & Sacce.

5 Second attack of Volagases on Armenia.

6 Tiridates established as King.

7 1st expedition of Corbulo.

8 Half submission of Volagases.

9 Revolt of Vardanes.

10 Second expedition of Corbulo.

11 Armenia given to Tigranes.

12 Revolt of Hyrcania.

13 Third attack of Volagases on Armenia.

14 Defeat of Paitus, & re-establishment of Tiridates.

15 Last expedition of Corbulo, & arrangement of Terms of Peace.

16 Tiridates at Rome.

17 Probable time of Death of Volagases.

1 Results of Establishment of Tiridates in Armenia.

2 Long period of Peace between Parthia & Rome.

3 Obscurity of Parthian History at this time.

4 Relations of Volagases 1. with Vespasian.

5 Invasion of Western Asia by Alani.

6 Death of Volagases 1 & Character of his Reign.

7 Accession & Long Reign of Pacorus.

8 Relations of Pacorus with Decebalus of Dacia.

9 Internal Condition of Parthia during his Reign.

10 Death of Pacorus & Accession of Chosroes.

1 Reign of Chosroes.

2 General condition of Oriental Affairs gives a h&le to Trajan.

3 Trajan's Schemes of Conquest.

4 Embassy of Chosroes to Trajan fails.

5 Great Expedition of Trajan.

6 115 Campaign

7 116 Campaign

8 Death of Trajan, & relinquishment of his Parthian Conquests by Hadrian.

9 Interview of Chosroes with Hadrian.

10 Its Consequences.

11 Death of Chosroes & Accession of Volagases 2

1 Reign of Volagases 2

2 Invasion of Alani. Communications between Volagases & Antoninus Pius.

3 Death of Volagases 2 & Accession of Volagases 3

4 Aggressive War of Volagases 3 on Rome.

5 162 Campaign

6 Verus sent to East.

7 Sequel of War.

8 Losses suffered by Parthia.

9 Death of Volagases 3

1 Accession of Volagases 4

2 His Alliance sought by Pescennius Niger, Part taken by Parthia in Contest between Niger & Severus, Mesopotamia revolts from Rome.

31 st Eastern Expedition of Severus.

4 Its Results.

5 2nd Expedition.

6 Successes of Severus.

7 His Failure at Hatra.

8 General Results of War.

9 Death of Volagases 4

1 Struggle between 2 Sons of Volagases 4, Volagases 5 & Artabanus.

2 Continued Sovereignty of both Princes.

3 Ambition of Caracallus.

4 His Proceedings in East.

5 His Resolve to quarrel with Parthia.

6 1st Proposal made by him to Artabanus.

7 Perplexity of Artabanus.

8 Caracallus invades Parthia. His Successes, & Death.

9 Macrinus, defeated by Artabanus, consents to Terms of Peace.

10 Revolt of Persians under Artaxerxes

11 Prolonged Struggle.

12 Death of Artabanus, & Downfall of Parthian Empire.

1 On Architecture & Ornamental Art of Parthians.

1 Customs of Parthians: in Religion: in War: in ir Embassies & Dealings with Foreign Nations: at Court: in Private Life.

2 Extent of Refinement to which y reached.

3 ir gradual Decline in Taste & Knowledge.