The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . AM: *>-f.;^«^N> :.i-:Mllliit. VINISYABDS IN THE KEIGHBOUUUOOD OF HEBKON. maiutained themselves upon the soil. The plough which they employed was like that used by the Egyptians and Babylonians, being nothing but a large hoe to which a couple of oxen were harnessed.^ The scarcity of rain, except in certain seasons, and the tendency of the rivers to run low, contributed to make the cultivators of the soil experts in irrigation and agriculture. Almost the only remains of these people which have come down to us consist of iudestructib
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . AM: *>-f.;^«^N> :.i-:Mllliit. VINISYABDS IN THE KEIGHBOUUUOOD OF HEBKON. maiutained themselves upon the soil. The plough which they employed was like that used by the Egyptians and Babylonians, being nothing but a large hoe to which a couple of oxen were harnessed.^ The scarcity of rain, except in certain seasons, and the tendency of the rivers to run low, contributed to make the cultivators of the soil experts in irrigation and agriculture. Almost the only remains of these people which have come down to us consist of iudestructible wells and cisterns, or wine and oil presses hollowed out of the rock.^ Fields of wheat and barley extended along the fiats of the valleys, broken in upon here and there by orchards, in which the white and pink almond, the apple, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive flourished side by side. If the slopes of the valley rose too precipitously for cultivation, stone dykes were employed to collect the falling earth, and thus to transform the sides of the hills into a series of terraces r
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