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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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e and in-mountains broke up the t^::^^^country, as a whole, into conditions,little cantons, separated the one fromthe other by natural barriers. No broad,central plain existed on which militarydespotisms like those of Mesopotamiamight be established. There was an-tecedent expectation of variety, clanlife, petty tribal kingdoms, and various THE CANAANITES.—ANCIENT TRIBES. 327 modes of cultivation; hut no oppor-tunity for the creation of a hu^-e despot-ism such as those of the East. Hereindependence might be attained, and thepastoral tribes, though becoming seden-tary, might each develop on its own lineof preference and convenience. It wasa situation favorable for the production cedar-covered ridges of Lcl)anon, andthe proximity of the sea, insured vigorand longevity. Those tribes that cameto the coast would find a situation mostfavorable for the beginnings of com-merce. This coast region was possessedon the south by a race calling themselvesPelishtim, or, in the later tongue, Philis-
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CEDAR-COVERED RIUGE OF LEBANON. of Striking contrasts of character and ac-tivity. In the next place, the new environ-ment of the Canaanites was of a kind tostimulate the people into unusual energy.Favorable situa- Here the burning heats of::::Zl^^^r the Babylonian sun weren^®^*- no longer felt. Here the mountain air, blowing down from the tines, from whom the country receivedits classical name of Palaestina, or Pales-tine. The northern part of the regionbordering on the Mediterranean wascalled Phoenicia. The Egyptians gaveto the whole eastern coast the name ofKaft. The interior tribes, spreading outover ^vhat was afterwards known as theHoly Land, Avere called the Retennu. 328 GREAT RACES OF MANKIKD. One powerful tribe was the Amari, known in the Hebrew annals as the Amorites. Another division was called the Cheta, which became Touches of Bib-lical and histor- in Hebrew phraseology the ical names. \j-..-. a^ i Hittites. r^ early everyvalley and secluded place received itsown clan, and

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