. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Arabs—Syrians—Syrian Christians—The Cypriotes. SYRIA, Palestine, Mesopotamia,—scenes ofpast life that still lives, that is still beingunravelled,—are certainly more interestingby reason of their history than of their pre-sent condition. Early civilisation, mightyempires, intercourse between diverse peoples,intermixture, spread of languages, religions,and arts—all these combin
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Arabs—Syrians—Syrian Christians—The Cypriotes. SYRIA, Palestine, Mesopotamia,—scenes ofpast life that still lives, that is still beingunravelled,—are certainly more interestingby reason of their history than of their pre-sent condition. Early civilisation, mightyempires, intercourse between diverse peoples,intermixture, spread of languages, religions,and arts—all these combine to make thesouthern portion of the Turkish empire inAsia of deep interest. Babylon is the Greek form of Babel, thegate of the gods. It was preceded in pre-dominance over Babylonia and As-syria by several cities, the first ofwhich we have any account being Ur. Butstill earlier the plain of Mesopotamia waspeopled by the Accad or Accadians, (that is,highlanders,) who descended from the hill-country lying to the north, and were almostcertainly a Mongoloid people alhed to theFinno-Ugrian group. The earliest sovereignof whom we have any account reigned at Ur,on the right bank of the Euphrates, over all 487. TheAccadians. I WOMAN OF GERMAN COLONY ISTRIA. THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. Babylonia, and built many vast brick temples to the moon, to the sun, toBel, and Ishtar, At this early date brick-making had assumed vast pro-portions, bitumen being used instead of mortar. Many architecturaldevices testify to the skill of these Accadian people; but they also originatedthe cuneiform system of writing, which, in an imperfect form, theybrought with them from the North, and they had considerable artisticskill in carving signet rings. Later, various cities gained temporarysupremacy in Babylonia, and meanwhile the Semitic element from Arabiaand Syria had been gaining more and more predominance, and theSemitic language was adopted by the State. Without attempting to estimate how long c
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