453

455

455

June 457

458

Rome, makes peace with the Romans, on condition of receiving the princess Honoria with a rich dowry.

He dies on the night after his marriage. The empire of the Huns is consequently destroyed.

Valentinian III., the last Roman emperor of the house of Theodosius, and an infamous prince, dies. Rome is sacked by the Vandals under Genseric. After Maxinus and Avitus, Majorian assumes the purple.

Marcian, the excellent emperor of the east, dies, and is succeeded by Leo the Great.

Hengist, having overcome Vortigern, the British prince, seizes on Kent, and makes himself master of it.

The city of Antioch is almost destroyed by an earthquake.

Severus succeeds in the Western empire.

459

Sep.14

461

467

Anthemius succeeds him.

472

Olybrius succeeds Anthemius.

473

475

Oct.

29.

Glycerius succeeds Olybrius.

Nepos dispossesses Glycerius of the empire, and obliges him to take priestly orders.

Euric, king of the Goths, breaks peace with the emperor, and enters Auvergne with a great army. Nepos makes Orestes governor of his forces in Gaul; who, instead of marching thither, endeavours to obtain the empire.

Orestes proclaims his own son Augustulus, though very young, emperor; and himself his guardian during his minority.

475

Zeno, the colleague of Leo II., emperor of the East, concludes a shameful peace with Genseric, and yields Africa to him and to his successors for

ever.

476 The disbanded barbarians who had served under

476

Orestes, demand a third part of Italy for their reward; and on being refused, revolt, and choose the famed Odoacer, a private man in the guards, and a bold barbarian, for their leader, who besieges Orestes in Pavia, and takes it by storm.

Orestes is taken prisoner, and put to death by Odoacer.

Odoacer proceeds to Ravenna, where he causes Paul, the brother of Orestes to be put to death; and then strips young Augustulus of his imperial insignia, and confines him in the castle of Lucullanum.

Rome readily submits to Odoacer, who causes himself to be proclaimed king of Italy. An end is thus put to the Western empire of Rome, which had continued, from the battle of Actium, five hundred and seven years.

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QUESTIONS

ON

GENERAL HISTORY,

ADAPTED TO

THE FOREGOING SKETCHES AND TABLES

SECTION I.

FROM THE CREATION TO THE YEAR 1000 B.C.

How many years before Christ do chronologists generally place the creation of the world?-What period elapsed between the death of Adam and the birth of Noah? How long did Methusaleh probably live on intimate terms with each of them?-What dreadful catastrophe happened in the year that Methusaleh died?— What has the population of the Old World, at the time of the flood, been estimated at? In what year before Christ did that event happen?-How many years are thought to have elapsed between the deluge and the general dispersion of mankind, consequent on the building of Babel? What monarchies probably began soon after that event?-Was Noah then living?-Who was probably born two years after the death of Noah ?-In what year is that important event, the call of Abram, placed?-How old was he at that time?-How long was it after the flood?-How long had Abram been in Ca

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naan, when God renewed his covenant with him that he would make him the father of many nations, and would give the land of Canaan for a possession to him and his posterity? What awful calamity befel Sodom and Gomorrah in the same year, an event which places in striking contrast the different choices of Abraham and Lot? How old was Isaac when he was weaned, an event at which his father made a great feast? In Gen. xv. 13, we find it declared to Abraham, that his descendants should be strangers in a land that was not theirs, and that they should serve and be afflicted there four hundred years but in Exod. xii, 40, 41, we are told that the sojourning of the children of Israel was four hundred and thirty years: how may these apparent contradictions be reconciled?---How old was Isaac when Shem, Noah's second son, died?-How old were Jacob and Esau when their grandfather Abraham died?-What was their age when Jacob obtained his father's blessing by fraud?— How long was Jacob in Mesopotamia-Was Isaac living when Joseph was sold for a slave into Egypt? In what year did Jacob and his family go down into Egypt?— How many of the 430 years' sojourn had already elapsed? -The death of Joseph concludes the Look of Genesis; of how many years does that book contain the history ?— How long had Joseph been dead when Moses was born?

Who, according to Calmet, lived about this time in the eastern country?-What celebrated city was probably founded not long after?-Who, according to Archbishop Usher, was the king of Egypt, that refused to listen to Moses, and was finally drowned in the Red Sea? In what year were the Israelites liberated from Egypt? How long had they and their ancestors been in that country? What prophetic period was then accomplished --How long after the Exode, was the law

delivered on Mount Sinai?--What great Jewish festival was kept in commemoration of that event?-Through the medium of how many persons does it appear possible that the tradition of the creation may have been handed down from Adam to Moses? Name them.-In what year did Joshua lead the Israelites into Canaan ?-How long did he continue to superintend and fight for them? How many times, during the space of about 400 years, were the Israelites either wholly, or in part, brought into bondage?—Who delivered them from their first servitude?-Who from the second?-Who from the third ?Who from the fourth-What distinguished female is thought to have been contemporary with this prophetess? -What probably was the Argonautic expedition, and when was it undertaken ?-Who delivered the Israelites from their fifth servitude?-Who from the sixth?What famous city was besieged and taken by the Greeks during the time that he judged Israel?-What singular character defended Israel, during the latter years of Eli's life?—What year is fixed on as the date of the celebrated migration of the Eolian colonies from Greece to Asia Minor? In what year did the Heraclidæ recover possession of the Peloponnesus, and seize on Sparta?—Who was the last judge of the Israelites?—In what year was Saul appointed to be their king?-What people abolished the regal dignity, and acknowledged the authority of Jupiter alone, about the time that the Israelites rejected the true God as their sovereign, and demanded a king like the rest of the nations ?-Who was the first archon of Athens?—In what year did David become sole king of Israel, and how long did he reign in Jerusalem ?—In what year and at what age did Solomon succeed his father?-How long was the first temple in building, and in what year was it dedicated?What period in the