of our era.

Considering that the Calendar system was, however, but one part of the
machinery of government, was inseparable from the organization of tribes,
classes and individuals, and that its institution signified the foundation
of a state, it is remarkable to ascertain that, but 137 years previously,
Constantine, in A.D. 330, had instituted the empire of New Rome, on
precisely the same numerical basis as that of the Mexican Calendar, and
divided it into 4 parts or prefectures, each subdivided into 13, yielding
a total of 52 prefectures. Moreover, as far back as the institution of the
Kleisthenean democracy, the Greeks had been familiar with an extremely
intricate and close union of calendar and government system, such as
existed in Babylonia-Assyria and, as I have shown, in ancient Mexico.

It is certainly suggestive that the period of 137 years, which elapsed
between the establishment of New Rome on a partly revived and partly
amended or remodelled plan, and the foundation of the great democracy of
ancient Mexico at the date inferred, is unparalleled in the history of
mankind for religious persecutions, carried on in Egypt, Greece and Rome,
following upon three centuries marked by the growth and spread of
Christianity and the persecution of its followers, the destruction of
Jerusalem and the persecution of the Jews. It was in A.D. 379 that
Theodosius, the Greek, proclaimed Christianity the religion of his empire
and instituted a relentless persecution of the Arians and followers of the
ancient Egyptian religion.

Under Arcadius, Emperor of the East (A.D. 395), the Anthromorphites, who
affirmed that God was of human form, destroyed the greater number of their
opponents. Under Marcianus (A.D. 451), Silco invaded Egypt with his Nubian
followers and the Council of Chalcedon condemned the Monophysite doctrine
of Eutyches. Later, under Justinian (A.D. 527), the Monophysites separated
from the Melchites and chose their own patriarch, being afterwards called
Copts.

It is impossible to close one's eyes to the fact that, during this period
of persecution and massacre, imminent peril of death must have forced many
a band of the priests and followers of the ancient Egyptian and other
religions to seek safety in flight. The events which took place in Egypt
between A.D. 379 and 451, culminating in Silco's invasion, must
unquestionably have been deeply felt by the descendants of the ancient
Phoenician, Carthaginian and Grec