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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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208 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. of a metallic medium of exchange—theinvention of money by weight. As soonas these conditions appear distinctions inwealth would arise. There would begreat herdsmen and small. The divi-sion of labor would soon suggestmerchandise as a profession, and withthat would come the establishment ofthe primitive city. While the herds-men and masters of flocks would con-tinue to camp in the open champaign. bound with cords, and made of cedar,among thy merchandise. In anotherplace the same prophet represents theAsshurites as making for the Tyriansbenches of ivory. We thus catchglimpses froin the writings of the He-brew seers of the rise and developmentof the commercial life among the primi-tive peoples of Aram. In considering the early distributionand first civilization of the descendants
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\ 11-.W (JF l^ABYLUN. the thrifty trader would abandon thepastoral life and build for himself awharf and a house of merchandise. The prophet Nahum, having in hisvision the swarming tradesmen of Nin-eveh, says, Thou hast multiplied thymerchants above the stars Semitic visions of commerce and oflieaVCn. Ezckicl, Spcak- ^^^^^- ing more elaborately of the commercial life of the Aramaeans,says, Haran and Canneh and Eden,the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, andChilmad, were thy merchants. Thesewere thy merchants in all sorts ofthings, in blue clothes and broideredwork and in chests of rich apparel. of the x\sshur and the Arphaxad, we areapt to fix our attention ^ Old cities of the upon the two great centers Asshur and theof Babylon and Nineveh, ^p^^^^with their surrounding aggregations ofcities and monuments, to the exclusionof the more extended life of the Semiticpeoples. Babylon and Nineveh werenot by any means the only large citieswhich were founded on the banks of theMesopotamian rivers. On

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