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Article: Ten years on the Euphrates: primitive missionary policy illustrated.(Excerpt)
- Article from:
- International Journal of Kurdish Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 Kurdish Library. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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BEFORE SPEAKING OF THE FIELD and work by which special attention will be paid, let us take a hasty view of the country at large and its inhabitants. In the southern part of the territory of the Mission to Eastern Turkey are the eastern portion of Mesopotamia and Ancient Assyria, the proper limits of which seem to have extended as far north as the Taurus Mountains, though, in their frequent contests with the Armenians on the north, the Assyrian monarchs not infrequently passed over that barrier and overran Armenia, which is the northern division. On the eastern bank of the Tigris, to the north of Diarbekir, the Armenians still show the plain which they say ...
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...Like all ancient economies, Assyria's was based on its ability to produce food. Without food, people cannot survive and a nation cannot function. Most Assyrians were engaged in raising plants and animals for food. But the Assyrians were particularly known for another economic activity: They traded
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