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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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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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THE CANAAN/TKS.—ANCIENT TRIlUiS. 331 Hebrew writ-ings unfavor-able to Canaan-itish character. poor opinion of those peoples who werevirtually exterminated by Joshua and hissuccessors. But a m orecareful consideration ofthe subject will give us abetter notion of the condition and char-acter of the unfortunate peoples whofell before the Hebrew invasion. Oftheir prosperity and manner of life wemay form some idea from the occasional ■a conquest, was, witliout doubt, one of themost inviting morsels that ever temptedthe cupidity of men. No AncientPaies-doubt the Israelites, after ^orseuTif^long suffering in half- vaders.desert countries, came to the feast withsharpened appetites; but the repast wasabundant. Palestine was a land offruits and flowers, of flocks and herdsand vineyards, of orchards and barley

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