165 BC
Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BCDecades: 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC - 160s BC - 150s BC140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC
Years: 170 BC 169 BC 168 BC 167 BC 166 BC - 165 BC - 164 BC 163 BC 162 BC 161 BC] 160 BC
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Events
- Judas Maccabaeus begins a successful revolt against the Seleucid rulers of Palestine
evidence is pretty straight. Shem, the son of Noah, was present at the
knowledge to their descendants, and the lineal descendants of these
acquaintance of members of so respectable a family. It was a thing to be
henceforward.
If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around
let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it
bell. The Syrians are very poor.html">poor, and yet they are ground down by a
their taxes were heavy enough, in all conscience--but this year they have
of famine in former years. On top of this the Government has levied a
the story. The Pacha of a Pachalic does not trouble himself with
amount to in a certain district. Then he farms the collection out. He
pays the Pacha on the spot, and then sells out to smaller fry, who sell
the peasant to bring his little trifle of grain to the village, at his
remainder returned to the producer. But the collector delays this duty
last the poor wretch, who can not but understand the game, says, "Take a
most outrageous state of things.
These people are naturally good-hearted and intelligent, and with
appeal to the stranger to know if the great world will not some day come
water in England and Paris, but his subjects are suffering for it now.
This fashion of camping out bewilders me. We have boot-jacks and a bath-
revealed. What next?
of Lebanon. It proved to be not quite so much of a garden as it had
thickly with stones the size of a man's fist. Here and there the natives
most part the valley was given up to a handful of shepherds, whose flocks
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