tion>Jacob Abbott
Xerxes
Makers of History
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664626448
Table of Contents
Debate on the Proposed Invasion Of Greece.
Preparations for the Invasion Of Greece.
The Review of the Troops at Doriscus.
The Preparations of the Greeks for Defense.
The Advance of Xerxes into Greece.
The Return of Xerxes To Persia.
PREFACE.
One special object which the author of this series has had in view, in the plan and method which he has followed in the preparation of the successive volumes, has been to adapt them to the purposes of text-books in schools. The study of a general compend of history, such as is frequently used as a text-book, is highly useful, if it comes in at the right stage of education, when the mind is sufficiently matured, and has acquired sufficient preliminary knowledge to understand and appreciate so condensed a generalization as a summary of the whole history of a nation contained in an ordinary volume must necessarily be. Without this degree of maturity of mind, and this preparation, the study of such a work will be, as it too frequently is, a mere mechanical committing to memory of names, and dates, and phrases, which awaken no interest, communicate no ideas, and impart no useful knowledge to the mind.
A class of ordinary pupils, who have not yet become much acquainted with history, would, accordingly, be more benefited by having their attention concentrated, at first, on detached and separate topics, such as those
