FOLLOWING  HERODOTUS

LYDIA

"The Lydians have very nearly the same customs as the Greeks, with the exception that..."

SCYTHIA

"The dominion of the Scythians over Asia lasted twenty eight years, during which time their insolence and oppression spread ruin on every side."

PERSIA

"It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk... "

IONIA

"No other region is equally blessed as Ionia, neither north, south, east or west, for in other countries either the climate is too cold and damp, or else the heat and drought..."

EGYPT

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