. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . the east of the Dead sea, as far asthe Arnon, lay the country of the Moab-ites. In what was afterwards the terri-tory of Gibeon were located the Hi-vites, and in Judah were the outspreading of these ancient THE CANAAXITES.—ANCIENT TRIBES. Canaanitish tribes may well remind thereader of the distribution of
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . the east of the Dead sea, as far asthe Arnon, lay the country of the Moab-ites. In what was afterwards the terri-tory of Gibeon were located the Hi-vites, and in Judah were the outspreading of these ancient THE CANAAXITES.—ANCIENT TRIBES. Canaanitish tribes may well remind thereader of the distribution of the Hellenicclans among the mountains and valleysof Greece. The ethnic development of these peo-ples took one of two forms. The inte-Two forms of rior races became agricul-tural, stock-raising folk;and those of the coastbecame builders of seaports and the developmentamong theseraces. found the same opposition to the prog-ress of their arms in the narrow stripof coast country extending northwardfrom Caesarea to Antiocli. The manner of life adopted by theCanaanites of the interior districts wasvery similar to that of the similarity inHebrews in the same sit-uation at a later period. HebrewsThe races lying in the broader parts of progress of Ca-naanites and VIEW OF THE DEAD SEA. fathers of foreign commerce. So dis-tinctly were the latter characteristicsimpressed upon the Phoenicians as toset them apart in their evolution fromthe other Canaanites, and to make themindeed a separate study in distinction between them and theircountrymen was carried forward to theage of the Hebrew ascendency. Theconquest of Canaan by the Israelites didnot include Phoenicia; and in later agesboth the Babylonians and the Egyptians Syria, eastward of the Jordan, retained alarger measure of the old Mesopotamianlife than did they who settled in CanaanProper. We have already shown inanother part Avhat were the native jjrod-ucts and resources of these agricultural life was t
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