... Cilician passes, crossed the Amanus and Taurus into the plateau of Asia Minor, and ended at the coasts of the Ægæan and the Euxine; others passed through Assyria intoMedia, and through the Caspian ... the latter we find Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, master of the wholebasin of the Tigris and Euphrates in the time of Abraham. Among his vassals were Amraphel, king of Shinar,and Arioch, king of ... the east and west, and for navigators coming from the ports of Africa, Arabia, and India.There are, if we may use the expression, natural capitals and capitals that are artificial. The sites of the...