. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. - t> tions. able sidelight relative to the civil polity of the Canaanitish na-tions. The political institutions of allhad a family likeness. As we have saidabove, the various tribes were disseveredfrom each other alike by geographicalbarriers and the te
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. - t> tions. able sidelight relative to the civil polity of the Canaanitish na-tions. The political institutions of allhad a family likeness. As we have saidabove, the various tribes were disseveredfrom each other alike by geographicalbarriers and the tendencies of localchieftainship. The Semitic love of inde-pendence coincided with the brokencharacter of Palestine in segregating thepetty nations each from the other. Inthe Book of Joshua we have an enumera-tion of thirty-one kings of such kingdoms could be of no great extent or power. In one place(Judges xi, lo) we are told that Hazorwas the chief of all these Sense of thekingdoms. From this, terms kingdom however, we should not un- derstand that the King of Hazor had afeudal suzerainty over his fellow-chief-tains of the other states, but only that hewas greater than the surrounding- reader will understand that theword king in such a relationship has no The enumeration is in one place extended OLD CANAANITISH INSCRIPTIONS—SARCOPHAGUS OFESMUNAZAR. sense corresponding to that derived frommodern monarchy. It was rather in thecase of the chiefs of Canaan a militaryleadership, which had arisen by the ele-vation of the headman of the clan to thegovernment of the whole tribe. The most striking fact in connectionwith the petty states of ?*? -^ _ Disposition of Canaan was their fre- the canaanites ^ . . to confederate. quent combination into con-federacies. Whenever danger appeared 338 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. a federation would be formed of thoseprinces whose territories were Israelites had little trouble in over-coming the Canaani
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