[Footnote 19: See _Battle of Marathon_, page 322, and _Invasion of
Greece_, page 354.]

This was a world event, one of the great turning points, a decision that
could not have been otherwise if man was really to progress. The
degenerate, enfeebled, half-Semitized Aryans of Asia were not permitted
to crush the higher type which was developing in Europe. The more
vigorous bodies and far abler brains of the Greeks enabled them to
triumph over all the hordes of their opponents. The few conquered the
many; and the following era became one of European progress, not of
Asiatic stagnation.



(FOR THE NEXT SECTION OF THIS GENERAL SURVEY SEE VOLUME II.)





DAWN OF CIVILIZATION

B.C. 5867[20]

G.C.C. MASPERO


It is a far cry to hark back to 11,000 years before Christ, yet
borings in the valley of the Nile, whence comes the first recorded
history of the human race, have unveiled to the light pottery and