. 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. ated, and, if so, bymen of the Semitic race. The kings of 326 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Elam were they who first extended theirrule over Lower Mesopotamia, and thencontinued their conquests westward intovSyria. These kings are thought byDuncker to have belon
. 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. ated, and, if so, bymen of the Semitic race. The kings of 326 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Elam were they who first extended theirrule over Lower Mesopotamia, and thencontinued their conquests westward intovSyria. These kings are thought byDuncker to have belonged to the fourthdynasty of Berosus, in which case theseearly Avars against the Syrians must becarried back as far as the year 2000 B. the existence of people in thewest, bordering on the Mediterranean,in such state of progress as to make awar of resistance against the inwading- Here were deep and fertile , not far away, was the coast of alimitless sea. Doubtless the native lux-uriance, still unabated by the interfer-ence of man, lay before these early colo-nists, seeming to their imaginations asinviting as did the valley of the Jamesto our ancestral Virginians. Other parts of the country, such as themountain slopes of Syria, invited to thecontinuance of the pastoral life withwhich the emigrants were most CANAANrrE CLAN LIKE—Road to Jekicho—Drawn by H. A. Harper. armies of Elam and Chaldasa, implies along antecedent residence in the three thousand years beforethe Christian era the emigrating tribesfrom Mesopotamia had already traversedSyria and settled in Canaan. We are not here concerned with his-torical events, but only with ethnic de-velopment. The Canaanites on theirimmigration from the flatlands of Mesopotamia foundthemselves amongst thewestern mountains, in the luidst of achanged and ever varying landscape. New environ-ment of the Ca-naanitish immi-grants. In the valleys, however, there was everysuggestion of agriculture
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