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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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ith the emiirration of the westward toward the great sea, andscattered them, as if fortuitously, inmany regions between Asia Minor andArabia. It was thus at a very primitive epochthat the various tribes strong ethnicknown to history as the Ca- SSS^nd^naanites were brought into Hebrews,the country ;ifterwards conquered by the THE CAX A ANITES.—ANCIENT TRIBES. 325 Hebrews. It must be insisted and re-peated that the Canaanites and theHebrews were in strong- ethnic affinity.They were all of a common stock. Per-haps the former had come into thecountry of their choice from a regionsomewhat further nortli than that oc-cupied by the ancestors of the latter.The emio-ration, however, soon ob- their kinsmen in possession of the coun-try; but they knew not it was they; nordid the Canaanites suppose themselvesinvaded by immigrants of their ownrace. At what time the primitive tribes ofCanaan removed from east to west itwere vain to conjecture. It can only besaid that in the dawn of tradition they
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GOING FORTH OF OLD SEMITES FROM MUGHEIR OF THE CHALDEES. literated in the memories and traditionsof the Canaanitish tribes and the Abra-in pre-iiterary hamitcs all knowledge ofsfentTsso1)nfor- ^heir commou Origin andgotten. affinities of blood. vSuch facts were soon forgotten in antiquity.A new migration would bring upon thedescendants of an older migration a peo-ple who knew nothing of the commonties existino^ among them. So it was inthe case of the incoming of the Hebrewsproper into Canaan. They found there were already in possession of the coun-tries afterwards made famous by theascendency of the Hebrews. Early ethnicalWe have information re- -^^ictrnrofspecting this region and Canaanites.its inhabitants as far back as the time ofthe campaigns of Kudur-Lagamer, Kingof Chaldaea. Kudur-Maduk, King ofElam, is said to have made war on theSyrians. This would imply that Syriawas already populated, and, if so, bymen of the Semitic race. The kings of 326 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Elam were t

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