A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 5
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The History of the Jews
The Hebrews were settled in Judea long before 1000 BC, and their capital city after that time was Jerusalem. Their country was an inevitable high road between these latter powers and Egypt. They produced a written literature which became at last what Christians know as the Old Testament,. This literature appears in history in the 4th or 5th century BC. Probably this literature was first put together in Babylon. We have already told how the Pharaoh, Neko II, invaded the Assyrian Empire while Assyria fought for life against Medes, Persians and Chaldeans.
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