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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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tate withstood these encroachments.The latter yielded at length to thepowerful armies of the East, and He-braic nationality ended with conquest andtransportation. It was a part of thepolicy of the Assyrian and Babyloniankings to transfer colonies from Mesopo- 382 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. tamia into the outlying countries whichthey had conquered. Tliis policy wasa.dopted with Israel and Judah. At thesame time that the Jews and Samari-tans were borne away captive to theEuphrates, large bodies of Babyloniansand Assyrians were transferred intoSyria. This policy and practice brought anAramaic population into the countries our era there was a Parthian invasion ofPalestine; but its effects were littlenoticeable on the population. UnderRoman sway the province of Palestina,or Judasa, became one of the most de-sirable of the empire. Antioch was thecapital. A degree of civilization wasreached which Israel had never attained.The culture of Antioch, which rose tobe the third city of the empire, was
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ANTIOCH. occupied before by the Hebraic nations.Invasions by the There was thus injectedfi^ilnsTSRr into the ethnic life of Syria^^^- a large element of north- ern Semitic blood. If we view thecities of Judah, vSamaria, Phoenicia, andDamascus at any time after the end ofthe Hebrew captivity and before theascendency of Rome, we shall find al-ready a large admixture of Hebraic andAramaic elements. It was in this con-dition that Rome found and conqueredthe country. About forty years before throughout the civilized Provincial policyof the Romans. proverbialworld. The Roman ascendency, however, inthe Hebraic countries was in the natureof a political and militaryoccupation. The existingpopulations were not muchdisturbed by the presence of the impe-rial government in their cities. It wasnot the policy of Rome in her age ofconquest to persecute, distract, and tossabout the peoples whom she conquered.On the contrary, she sought as far as THE CANAANirES.—NEO-SYRlANS. 383 practicable to preser

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