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was the chief cause of their weakness. Their wealth and sources 

 of wealth were chiefly in their horses, and these they sold to the 

 merchants of Sidon and Tyre, who carried them to all the nations 

 of Europe and Africa, commencing with Egypt, and supplying all 

 wants as far as Spain and Morocco, and beyond, probably, as far 

 as Britain. The Phoenician merchants were the first to open 

 commercial transactions with Europe and Africa, and they were 

 in control of the commerce of the world long before King Solomon 

 entered into commercial partnership with Hiram, king of Tyre. 

 Armenia had horses to sell long before they had horses in Egypt, 

 and Phoenicia had ships and enterprise to carry them there. 

 There is a fitting of interests here that seems to point to Armenia 

 as the great original source of supply, and as the original habitat 

 of the horse. 



