human Treatment to dig in the Mines, and ranfack the Bowels of the Earth to fatisfy their Avarice. Hence Mankind came to be divided into Freemen and Slaves, Maßters and Servants. OTHERS introduced the Custom of carrying away whole Nations with their Families into new Countries, where they made them fettle, and gave them Lands to cultivate. OTHERS, yet more gentle, were fatisfied with making the conquered People redeem their Liberty, and the Use of their Laws and Privileges, by annual Tributes impofed upon them; and fometimes they even left the Kings upon their Thrones, and exacted from them no more than fome fort of Homage. THE wifeft and most politick made it their Glory to establish a kind of Equality between the new conquer'd Nations and their Subjects, granted to the vanquished Freedom, and almost all the fame Rights and Privileges as the others enjoyed. By this means, of many Nations difperfed in the World, they made as it were but one City, or at least but one People. THIS is a fhort and general Idea of what the History of Mankind prefents us with, and which I fhall endeavour to describe more párticularly, in treating of each Empire and Nation. I fhall not meddle with the Hiftory of the People of God, nor with that of the Romans. The Egyptians, Carthaginians, Affy. rians, Babylonians, Medes and Perfians, Macedonians and Grecians, Thall be the Subject of their Privil them; upon no m TH Glory the ne grante most a others Natio as it Peopl ΤΗ the H which ticula Lum Tap Chersonese Parva Antiphra rmachida MOgdamus reotis La comni Little Moe tion. the Pe mans. rians, Babylonians, Medes and Perfians. cedonians and Grecians, fhall be the S of the Work the first Volume whereof I here, give the Publick. I begin with the Egypti ans and Carthaginians, because the former are very ancient, and have not fo close a Connexion with the reft of the Hiftory, whereas other Nations are more interwoven, and fometimes do even fucceed one another. BOOK BOOK I. THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS shall divide what I have to fay concerning the Egyptians into Three Parts. The First shall contain a fhort Plan and Description of the feveral Parts of Egypt with what is most remarkable and curious. In the Second, I fhall speak of the Cuftoms, Laws, and Religion of the Egyptians. In the Third and Laft, I fhall give the Hiftory of the Kings of Egypt. PART |