TIME-SPANS OF GROWTHS OF CIVILIZATIONS 759 -
6 The approximate date of the flood-tide of the influx of Aramaean and Chal-
daean Nomad barbarians from the North Arabian Steppe into both Babylonia
and Mesopotamia. The Babylonic Civilization was brought to ruin by the
militarism to which the Assyrians succumbed as the price of their arduous vic-
tory over the Aramaean invaders (see II. ii. 133-5).
' The date of the sack of Khanfu (see IV. iv. 87).
8	Following Spinden's chronology, which dates the end of 'the First Empire*
of the Mayas circa a.d. 600 (see I. i. 125, nn. 3 and 4).
9	Following Spinden's and Gann's chronology (see I. i. 124, n. 2).
10	Following Thompson's chronology (see I. i. 125, n. 3).
11	Following Thompson's chronology (see I. i. 124, n. 2).
12	Following Spinden's chronology.
13	This date is an inference from the fact that the Aztecs were on the eve of
establishing a universal state in Central America when the Spaniards arrived on
the scene in a.d. 1519.
14	The approximate date of the death of Solomon (see IV. iv. 68).
15	The date of the Shi'i revolt against the Ottoman Power in Anatolia.
16	The date of the Ottoman conquest of the dominions of the Egyptian Mam-
luks.
17	Following the standard Sinic chronology, which dates the overthrow of the
Shang Power by Wu Wang in 1122 b.c.
18	The date of the conversion of Russia to Orthodox Christianity.
19	Following the chronology of the Bamboo Books, which dates the overthrow
of the Shang Power by Wu Wang in 1050 b.c.
20	Following Thompson's chronology, which dates the end of 'the First
Empire' of the Mayas in the first half of the ninth century of the Christian Era
(see I. i. 125, n. 3).

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