The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . the examplescollected by W. Max , Asien und Europa. pp. 205-208. It is found several times under the formsKinakhna,Kinakhkhi, and probably the cuneiform texts of Trl el-Amarna (Winckleh,Verzeich. drr aus dem Funde ron El-Amarna herriihrcnden Thonlafel, in Zdtschrlft, 1889, p. 45, n. 4). ^ As far as I know, the term Aramxan is not to be found in any Egyptian text of tlie time of thePharaohs: the only known example of it (Anastasi Papyrus III. pi. v., verso, 1. 5) is a writers errorcorrected by Chabas ( Recherclws po
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . the examplescollected by W. Max , Asien und Europa. pp. 205-208. It is found several times under the formsKinakhna,Kinakhkhi, and probably the cuneiform texts of Trl el-Amarna (Winckleh,Verzeich. drr aus dem Funde ron El-Amarna herriihrcnden Thonlafel, in Zdtschrlft, 1889, p. 45, n. 4). ^ As far as I know, the term Aramxan is not to be found in any Egyptian text of tlie time of thePharaohs: the only known example of it (Anastasi Papyrus III. pi. v., verso, 1. 5) is a writers errorcorrected by Chabas ( Recherclws pour IUistoire de VEgypte sous la XIX dynastie, pp. 97,107). W. MaxMliller (Asien ttnd Europa, p. 234) very justly observes that the mistake is itself a proof of the exist-ence of the name and of the of the Egyptians with it. « Thiitmosis III. .shows that, at any rate, they were established in these regions about the XVIcentury The Egyptian pronunciation of their name is Ehtii, with the feminine Kliilail, Khiiit, as TEE CANAANITES. 127. AN ASIATIC The Canaanites were the most numerous of all these groups, and had theybeen able to amalgamate under a single king, or even to organize a lastingconfederacy, it would have been impossible for the Egyptian armies tohave broken through the barrier thus raised between them and the rest ofAsia; but, unfortunately, so far from showing the slightest tendency towardsunity or concentration, the Canaanites were more hopelessly divided than any of the ~^—^^—•??• ?-.•->~.*i-- —surrounding nations. Their mountains con-tained nearly as many states as there werevalleys, while in the plains each town repre-sented a separate government, and was builton a spot carefully selected for purposes ofdefence. The land, indeed, was chequeredwitii these petty states, and so closely werethey crowded together, that a horseman,travellingat leisure,could easily passthrouglitwo or three of them in a days journey.^ Notonly w
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