. Palestine and its transformation . NATURAL BRIDGE AT AIN EL LABEN IN LEBANON. WOMAN WITH BABY AND CRADLE IN A VILLAGE OF PHILISTIA PHCENICIAN AND JEW 61 tured than the Jews. Their rich plain, easilytraversed, lent itself to early civilization. Theinhabitants of such a place were naturally intouch with other nations. The great route fromEgypt to the East, as we have seen, passed di-rectly through their land. They had learned touse iron when their Jewish neighbors in the hillswere barely emerging from the age of tried to prevent the knowledge of its useamong the untutored tribes of
. Palestine and its transformation . NATURAL BRIDGE AT AIN EL LABEN IN LEBANON. WOMAN WITH BABY AND CRADLE IN A VILLAGE OF PHILISTIA PHCENICIAN AND JEW 61 tured than the Jews. Their rich plain, easilytraversed, lent itself to early civilization. Theinhabitants of such a place were naturally intouch with other nations. The great route fromEgypt to the East, as we have seen, passed di-rectly through their land. They had learned touse iron when their Jewish neighbors in the hillswere barely emerging from the age of tried to prevent the knowledge of its useamong the untutored tribes of the plateau. Ac-cording to the Biblical account, there were nosmiths in Judea in those early days directly afterthe inroad of the Israelites from the the cultured people of the plain wereable to restrain the depredations of the high-landers by compelling them to come to the low-land for the sharpening of scythes. How different the history of Philistia and ofPhoenicia. The plain by its openness and richnessfostered civilization. It invited the trade andarmie
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