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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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haginian descent.Indeed, a careful analysis of the peoplenow inhabiting the country would showelements of almost all the prevailingbloods round about the Mediterraneanexcept that one blood which flowed in theveins of Hamilcar and Hannibal, 880 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. scent of themodern Tunisians. The Roman population which sup-planted the Carthaginian in this part ofOrigin and de- the African coast contin-ued predominant until theage of the Vandal con-quest. This happened in the first halfof the fifth century. A hundred yearslater the country was recovered by thesword of Belisarius. The Vandal pop-ulation, however, remained, and was well as the Tripolitan provinces. Outof this melange of nations and raceshas sprung the modern Tunisian popu-lation. It is a composite race in whichvSemitic elements have again prevailed,but are intermixed with an older Aryanstock and with the Turcomans, whosince the sixteenth century have heldpolitical sway in the country. The consideration of the Hebraic
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THE HORNS OF HATTIN—Drawn by H. A. Harper, from a photograph. amalgamated with the Roman elementsand with the Berbers, who already be-gan to assert themselves as far north asthe coast. Then came the Moham-medan conquest. By this agency an-other Semitic race was laid over theiVryan elements which had predomi-nated for more than eight centuries. In the eleventh century the BedouinArabs, of Upper Egypt, rolled in a vastwave westward, overwhelming Tunis as division of the vSemitic race may prop-erly conclude with some Semitism still account of the Neo-Syrian Z^gX^lZlpopulation now occupying tries,the countries once held by the Hebrews,the Canaanites, and the Phoenicians.The name Syria is applied in moderngeography to the country lying be-tween the Euphrates and the Mediter-ranean. Within this region we maysay that Semitism is still predominant. THE CANAANITES.—NEO-SYRIANS. 881 The peculiarity of the situation is thatthe Aramaic stock has pressed upon theHebraic from the north and east

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