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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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soil was fertile. date-palms. The vine and olive flour-ished, and all the fruits and vegetationwhich we have mentioned as belongingto the Syrian climate abounded, eitherby nature or easy cultivation. To theseresources and advantages must be addedthe fisheries of the coast, which in allages have yielded a rich reward to themwho ply the net. It was natural under such situationsthat an early civilization should beplanted in Phoenicia. Some of the old- 348 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. est cities known to history were estab-lished on this coast. Tradition carries back the date of the found-Phoenicia a fa- . ;• o • 1 a_ 4.vorabie seat of ing of vSidon to a remotecivilization. „„j r„i.,,i,.,,.^ ^^^ The in- scriptions and fabulous age.of vSethos, or Seti I, of Out of the nature of the case the com-mercial life must spring up and flourishalong the Syrian coast, commercial lifeFurther and further the ad- raiy from^theventure of the fishermen situation,and mariners would carry them, until a
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VIEW OF TYRE—IJravvn hy H. A. Harper. Egypt, make mention of Sidon as one ofthe cities conquered by him—a recordAvhich could not have been made if sucha city had not existed. Tyre, which wascertainly younger than »Sidon, was aflourishing city as early as the close ofthe twelfth century before our era. knowledge of foreign shores and the re-sources of distant countries would beadded. Thus the means of larger lifewould be brought to the Phoenician citieswith the consequent stimulus to enter-prise and achievement. It would appear that from the very THE CA NA A NITES. —PHCENICIA NS. 349 earliest ages the vSidonians and Tyriansbetook themselves to the sea, and beganto draw from distant coasts the meansof subsistence. Herodotus declares thatas soon as the iminigrants from thePersian gulf had settled in Phoeniciathey immediately undertook distantvoyages; and carrying cargoes of bothEgyptian and Assyrian goods, visited many countries, and among otherplaces, Argos, in Greece. One of the

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