. 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 . ate withstood these latter yielded at length to thepowerful armies of the East, and He-braic nationality ended with conquest andtransportation. It was a part of thepolicy of the Assyrian and Babyloniankings to transfer colonies from Mesopo- 382 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. tamia into the outlying countries whichthey
. 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 . ate withstood these latter yielded at length to thepowerful armies of the East, and He-braic nationality ended with conquest andtransportation. It was a part of thepolicy of the Assyrian and Babyloniankings to transfer colonies from Mesopo- 382 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. tamia into the outlying countries whichthey liad conquered. This policy wasadopted with Israel and Judah. At thesame time that the Jews and .Samari-tans were borne away captive to theEuphrates, large bodies of Babyloniansand Assyrians were transferred intoSyria. This policy and practice brought anAramaic population into the countries our era there was a Parthian invasion ofPalestine; but its effects were littlenoticeable on the population. UnderRoman sway the province of ,or Judica, became one of the most de-sirable of the empire. Antioch was thecapital. A degree of civilization wasreached which Israel had never culture of Antioch, which rose tobe the third city of the empire, was. ANTIOCH. occupied before by the Hebraic by the There was thus injected^^T^T^^i R^ into the ethnic life of Syria™^^- a large element of north- ern Semitic blood. If we view thecities of Jiidah, Samaria, Phoenicia, andDamascus at any time after the end ofthe Hebrew captivity and before theascendency of Rome, we shall find al-ready a large admixture of Hebraic andAramaic elements. It was in this con-dition that Rome found and conqueredthe coimtry. About forty years before proverbial throughout the civilizedworld. The Roman ascendency, however, inthe Hebraic countries was in the natureof a political and military ,. TV, • ,• „ Provincial policy occupation. Ihe existing of the Romans. populations wer
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