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Title: Outlines of European history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936 Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935, joint author Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948, joint author
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Publisher: Boston : Ginn
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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Fig. 54. The Central Ridge of Palestine seen from thePlain of Jericho Palestine is much cut up by such bare and sterile ridges of limestone,which produce nothing. Locate on map, p. 102 ; see Fig. 55 jumble of civilization from both these rivers. The Canaaniteshad learned from Egypt the manufacture of many valuable arti-cles of commerce; from Babylonia the caravans had brought inbills and lists on clay tablets, and the Canaanites had thus learnedto use Babylonian cuneiform writing (p. 62). The Hebrews wereunable to destroy the Canaanites and their walled towns. Theysettled on the land around such towns and slowly mingled withthe Canaanites until the two peoples, Hebrew and Canaanite,had become one. This process was of great advantage to theHebrews, who thus gained the civilization of the Canaanites.
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Western Asia : The Hebrews 103 The situation of Palestine, with Egypt on one side and Assyria Rise of theand Babylonia on the other, was a dangerous one. These great Sngd^ompowers would not allow another strong nation to grow up in (^bout 1025Palestine. Fortunately for the Hebrews, Egypt, as we havelearned, fell into a state of feebleness by 1150 B.C. (p. 53) ; and,on the other side, the Aramean kingdom of Damascus was aprotection against the advance of Assyria (p. 71). Thus the SauUndtheHebrews were permitted to grow into a -nation, and before stmes1000 B.C. we find them under their first king, Saul. But immi-grants from Crete in the Mediterranean — a people called

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