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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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character, personal and national, ofany particular division of this race, mayreadily be generalized into Easiness of gen- the discussion of the coo-- eralization in t> matters relating nate peoples. Neverthe- to Semites,less, a general view of the vSemitic racedemands the consideration in turn of itsdifferent branches. In the foregoingchapters we have followed the line ofIsraelitish evolution, and now proceedto consider some of the other branchesof the Hebraic race. The reader willnot have forgotten that this family con-stitutes what is known as the Middledivision of the Semites, as distinguished 323 324 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. on the one hand from the Northern, orAramaie, division, and on the otherfrom the Arabie, or vSouthern, devek^p-ment of the same original stoek. We are here to follow, as well as we descendants of Terah. The departureof the Abrahamidce from Ur was onlyan incident in a general movementwhich carried in successive waves alarge part of the Enphratine populations
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CAXAAM 1 l.-^H LANDSCAPE.—Mih i.h (taih.- I) may, the course of that CanaanitishContinuous mi- phase of Semitism which^Zt:X^Z preceded the immigrationinto Syria. of the Abrahamitcs into Syria. It must be understood that theremoval of vSemitic tribes from Mesopo-tamia westward, and their colonization inCanaan and other parts of Syria, did notbegin or end with 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 ances

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