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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ddim.On the east of the Dead sea, as far asthe Arnon, lay the country of the Moab-ites. In what was afterwards the terri-tory of Gibeon were located the Hi-vites, and in Judah were the Jebusites.The outspreading of these ancient THE CA XA A XI TliS. ~A XCIRXT TRIBES. 329 Canaanitisli tribes may well remind thereader of the distribution of the Hellenieclans among; the mountains and valleysof Greece. The ethnic development of the.se peo-ples took one of two forms. The inte-Two forms of rior races became agricul-among^he^s? tural, stock-raising folk;races. ^^d those of the coast became builders of seaports and the found the same oppcxsition to the prog-ress of their arms in the narnjw stripof coast country extending northwardfrom Csesarea to Antioch. The manner of life adopted by theCanaanites of the interior districts wasvery similar to that of the similarity inHebrews in the same sit- Progress of ca- naanites and uation at a later period. Hebrews.The races lying in the broader parts of
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VIEW UF THE DEAD SEA. fathers of foreign commerce. So dis-tinctly were the latter characteristicsimpressed upon the Phoenicians as toset them apart in their evolution fromthe other Canaanites, and to make themindeed a separate study in history.This distinction between them and theircountrymen was carried forward to theage of the Hebrew ascendency. Theconquest of Canaan by the Israelites didnot include Phoenicia; and in later ao-esboth the Babylonians and the Egyptians vSyria, eastward of the Jordan, retained alarger measure of the old Mesopotamianlife than did they who settled in CanaanProper. We have already shown inanother part what were the native prod-ucts and resources of these countries.The agricultural life was taken up withfacility and success by the immigranttribes, and the country was soon madenot only habitable but productive. Seen through the prejudice of Jewishnarrative, the reader is apt to gather a

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