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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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ing up in a north- the race; origineasterly direction to Chal-dcea, and in a westerly and southerlycourse as far as the so-called Himyariticinscriptions are found distributed. Thisbranch, like the Hebrruc, is representedin modern times not only by peoples,but by nations. For the modern Arabsare of this descent, and also the Am-haric tribes of Abyssinia. vSuch, in gen- run ARA2LEAXS.~0(.n ASSLIURlTJis. 203 eral, is the outline of the division of thehuman raee now under eonsideration. It appears that this stoek of mankindtook its rise historically in certain pre-historic Armenian tribes which putthemselves out by migration and warinto Mesopotamia, and became at lengththe progenitors of the Chaldees and As- tors. It is as though we should say thatone of the sons of Shcm was Between-thc-Rivers. As for the rest, there is clearly someerror in the classification or in the inter-pretation of it, for Lud is given amongthe sons of vShem. It is generally un^derstood that Lud is the patronymic of
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CAXAL AT JlA,S>()kAll.-l,,av.„ by A. .le Syrians. Not much can be known, ex-cept in a conjectural way, about the far-off primitive stock. We have in theHebrew narrative an account of the sonsof Shem, who are enumerated as Elamand Asshur and Arphaxad and Ludand Aram. It would seem from thelast name that the countries into whichthese descendants were distributed weredesignated rather than personal ances- Uar, from a photograph by Madame Dieulafny. the Lydians; but this people wereclearly not of Semitic extraction. Thesame may be said with -r^^^>f ^-^ TTi 1 • -A-pplications of respect to Llam, who is Biblical scheme regarded as the father °^^^^^ography.of the Elamites. These people alsobelonged to another division of thehuman race, though they were at someperiods considerably intermixed with,the Semites. AVe may therefore regard 204 GREAT RACES OF MAXKLXD. the two principal divisions of the raceof Shem as the descendants of the As-shur and the iVrphaxad. AVe are

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