After political relations began to be established, the necessity of preserving a register of passing seasons and years would soon be felt, and the practice of recording important transactions must have grown up as a necessary consequence of social life. And a Spanish adventurer destroyed the picture A Chinese emperor has the credit ofīurning “ the books” extant in his day (about 220 B.C.),Īnd of burying alive the scholars who were acquainted The earliest written annals of the Greeks, Etruscans, and But of these early records a very small portion only has escaped the ravages of time and barbarism. Of the more formal historical writings in which the first Records which were found in the pueblo of Montezuma. In the following century wrote an elaborate history of Who drew up a chronological list of the priestesses of HeraĪt Argos of Ephorus, who lived in the 4th century B.C.,Īnd is distinguished as the first Greek who attempted theĬomposition of a universal history and of Timæus, who Lived through the greater part of the 5th century B.C., and Hellenicus, the Greek logographer, who appears to have Ineffectual attempts were made in the direction of systematicĬhronology we have no knowledge at first-hand.
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