. 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. as in an-tiquity strongly developed in the so-calledAramaic nations. This term Aramaic is likewise of Bib-lical origin. Aram in Hebrew signifiesthe Two Rivers, meaning Meaning ofAram; Hebdivision of Sam Aram; Hebraic ^^^^ region Called by the ites. Greeks
. 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. as in an-tiquity strongly developed in the so-calledAramaic nations. This term Aramaic is likewise of Bib-lical origin. Aram in Hebrew signifiesthe Two Rivers, meaning Meaning ofAram; Hebdivision of Sam Aram; Hebraic ^^^^ region Called by the ites. Greeks Mesopotamia,as dis- tinguished from Syria. It appears, how- eluding what Avas known as Phoenicia,and also vSamaria, besides the Holy Landproper. This branch also extended west-ward through certain of the ]\Iediterra-nean islands, from Cyprus to Sicily, andalong the African coast as far as Car-thage, and possibly, in a fragmentaryway, to Spain and liritain. It is need-less to remark that this ^liddle divisionincludes as its central fact the Hebrew,or Jewish, nation, which ethnic divisionhas contributed in the modern Jews theonly representatives of the central stockof the ancient race. The third division is known geograph-ically as the Southern, or, linguistically,as the Arabic branch of the Semiticfamily. It included ancient Ethiopia,. I IXTOj a
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