The Peoples of the Hills

Download or read book The Peoples of the Hills written by Charles Allen Burney and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian David Marshall Lang then takes up the story with a history of the region after the Persian Empire, into the Greek and Roman periods relating the epic story of Tigranes the Great and Mithradates Eupator and their struggle for freedom against Rome. Special sections are devoted to the ancient Christian civilizations of Armenia and Georgia and their contributions to art, architecture, literature and learning, ending with the onslaught of the Mongols in the 13th century."--BOOK JACKET.