Identifier: outlinesofworlds03swin (find matches)
Title: Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind ..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American Book Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he farther East. 143. Weaving of cotton, woolen stuffs, and carpets wasBabylonian the principal manufacture established in Bab-manufactures. ^j^^^ Articles of luxury, such as perfumedwaters, carved walking-canes, engraved stones and seals,were made in the city, and the art of cutting precious stoneswas carried to the utmost perfection. These articles weresought by all the civilized nations of antiquity. 144. The Babylonians had an extensive commerce east-Trade routes ward with Persia and Northern India, whencefrom Babylon, ^j^gy obtained gold, precious stones, and richdye-stuffs. From Candahar and Cashmere they procuredfine wool, and from the desert of Bactria (the modern Cobi)emeralds, jaspers, and other precious stones. The trade bysea was between the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates,and the western coasts of India and the Island of Ceylon.From these regions they imported timber of various kinds,sugar-cane, spices, cinnamon, and pearls. At a very early COMMERCE OF THE ANCIENTS. 65
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^ ANCIENT ORIENTAL MONARCHIES. period the Babylonians formed commercial establishmentson the Bahrein \bd-rdn\ Islands in th. Persian Gulf, whence,they obtained large quantities of the finest pearls. 145. The Phoenicians were the leading commercial peo-The Phoeni- pl^ of Asia. Though the textile fabrics of thbcians. Sidonians and the purple cloths of the Tyrianswere celebrated from the earliest antiquity, it seems prob-able that the commerce of the Phoenicians consisted morein the interchange of foreign commodities than in the ex-portation of their own goods. 146. The land trade of the Phoenicians may be divided into three great branches: the Arabian, which included the Egyptian and that with the Indian seas ; the Babylonian, to which is referred the commerce with Central Asia and North India; and the Armenian, including the overland trade with Scythia and the Caucasian countries. 147. From Yemen (Arabia Felix) caravans broughtArabia and the through the desert frankincense, myrrh, cass

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