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 (14782072804)

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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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assical name of Palaestina, or Pales-tine. The northern part of the regionbordering on the Mediterranean wascalled Phoenicia. The Egyptians gaveto the whole eastern coast the name ofKaft. The interior tribes, spreading outover ^vhat was afterwards known as theHoly Land, Avere called the Retennu. 328 GREAT RACES OF MANKIKD. One powerful tribe was the Amari, known in the Hebrew annals as the Amorites. Another division was called the Cheta, which became Touches of Bib-lical and histor- in Hebrew phraseology the ical names. \j-..-. a^ i Hittites. r^ early everyvalley and secluded place received itsown clan, and took its own ethnicname. Aery earh- among the settle- Inland we may detect the presence,even in this early age, of the Anakim,who had their country among the stonymountains round about Hebron. TheAnakim were represented Outspread ofas of huge stature, giants various Canaan-j 1 1 itish nations. indeed, who were re-garded with traditional dread by theHebrews, To the north of the Amo-

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OLD HITTITE TYPES.-Drawn by H. A. Harper. ments must be named the establish-ment of the Sidonians, in the regionwhere their city was afterwards built.Sidon, in the Hebrew genealogv, is setdown as the son of Canaan, meaning,perhaps, that the vSidonian tribe was anoffshoot from an older Canaanitishbranch. At a later period, but vStill farin the depths of tradition, the city ofSor, or Tyre, which became known asthe daughter of Sidon, was founded. rites lay the Damascenes. Back of allthese may be recognized the names ofZeboim and Zoar and Adaman, withwhom Kudur-Lagamer is said to havehad his battle in the valley of vSiddim.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 mountai

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