CHAPTER XIII. 



THE CAUCASIC PEOPLES (contimied). 



THE SEMITES Cradle, Origins, and Migrations Divisions : Phcenicians ; 

 Assyrians; Anwrites ; Canaanites ; Himyarites Phoenician Cradle and 

 Migration The Phoenician Alphabet Himyariles Sabaan and Mincean 

 Origins The Amorites: Arameans, Syr o- Chaldeans Later Syrians 

 Ansariehs ; Maronites ; Druzes The jews Origins Early and Later 

 Dispersions Diverse Physical Types Present Range and Population 

 THE HITTITES Conflicting Theories The Arabs : Spread of the Arab 

 Race and Language Semitic Monotheism Its Evolution THE PELAS- 

 GIANS, a wide-spread pre-Hellenic People of the Neolithic and Bronze 

 Ages Knowledge of Letters The Cretan and other vEgean Scripts 

 ^Egean Culture a Local Development Its Age and Westward Spread 

 from Troy to Scandinavia and Britain. 







THE Himyaritic immigrants, who thus still hold sway in a 

 foreign land, have long ceased to exist as a distinct nationality 

 in their own country, where they had nevertheless ages ago 

 founded nourishing empires, centres of one of the very oldest 

 civilizations of which there is any record. Should future research 

 confirm the now generally received view that Hamites and Semites 

 are fundamentally of one stock, a view based both on physical and 

 linguistic data, the cradle of the Semitic branch will 

 -Cradle? 1 a ^ so probably be traced to South Arabia, and more 



Origins, and particularly to that south-western region known to 



Migrations. 



the ancients as Arabia Felix, i.e. the Yemen of the 

 Arabs. While Asia and Africa were still partly separated in the 

 north by a broad marine inlet before the formation of the Nile 

 delta, easy communication was afforded between the two continents 

 farther south at the head of the Gulf of Aden, where they are still 

 almost contiguous. By this route the primitive Hamito-Semitic 



