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CHAPTER I. ANTEDILUVIAN AGE. The two races — Lamech — Enoch — Flood 1 CHAPTER II. THE EARTH PEOPLED Nimrod — Babel 8 CHAPTER III. THE ASSYRIAN, OR FIRST GREAT EMPIRE. Nimrod — Semiramis — Sardanapalus 12 CHAPTER IV. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. 17 CHAPTER V. HISTORY OF EGYPT.
The Zanclean flood or Zanclean deluge is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. [1] This flooding ended the Messinian salinity crisis and reconnected the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, although it is possible that even before the flood there were partial connections to the Atlantic Ocean. [2]
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Short title: A manual of ancient history, from the earliest times to the fall of the Western empire, comprising the history of Chaldæa, Assyria, Media, Babylonia ...
The Bonneville flood was a catastrophic flooding event in the last ice age, which involved massive amounts of water inundating parts of southern Idaho and eastern Washington along the course of the Snake River. Unlike the Missoula Floods, which also occurred during the same period in the Pacific Northwest, the Bonneville flood happened only ...
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
The antediluvian (alternatively pre-diluvian or pre-flood) period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology. The term was coined by Thomas Browne (1605–1682). The narrative takes up chapters 1–6 (excluding the flood narrative) of the Book of Genesis.
In geomorphology, an outburst flood—a type of megaflood—is a high-magnitude, low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of a large quantity of water. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the last deglaciation , numerous glacial lake outburst floods were caused by the collapse of either ice sheets or glaciers that formed the dams of ...