Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 197
zantine emperors.Such an interchange is not surprising in view of the ready recogni-tion of the earlier civilization in many other ways. The adminis-trative accounts of the empire of the caliphs, for instance, wereentirely in the hands of Christian Greeks, while the masterpiecesof Greek literature,… … Fig. 86.—Plan and Section of the Kubbet-es-Sachra (Mosque of the Rock), Jerusalem. The Arabian conquerors attained to a greater independence inEgypt. This country was first invaded from Syria by Amru, oneof Omars generals, at a time subsequent to the occupation ofPersia. But Egypt had…
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