Chapter 3

_SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST_

_NINEVEH AND THE FIRST COSSÆAN KINGS-THE PEOPLES OF SYRIA, THEIR TOWNS, THEIR CIVILIZATION, THEIR RELIGION-PHOENICIA._

_The dynasty of Uruazagga-The Cossseans: their country, their gods, their conquest of Chaldæa-The first sovereigns of Assyria, and the first Cossæan Icings: Agumhakrimê._

_The Egyptian names for Syria: Kharâ, Zahi, Lotanû, Kefâtiu-The military highway from the Nile to the Euphrates: first section from Zalu to Gaza-The Canaanites: their fortresses, their agricultural character: the forest between Jaffa and Mount Carmel, Megiddo-The three routes beyond Megiddo: Qodshu-Alasia, Naharaim, Garchemish; Mitanni and the countries beyond the Euphrates._

_Disintegration of the Syrian, Canaanite, Amorite, and Khdti populations; obliteration of types-Influence of Babylon on costumes, customs, and religion--Baalim and Astarte, plant-gods and stone-gods-Religion, human sacrifices, festivals; sacred stones--Tombs and the fate of man after death-Phoenician cosmogony._

_Phoenicia--Arad, Marathus, Simyra, Botrys--Byblos, its temple, its goddess, the myth of Adonis: Aphaka and the valley of the Nahr-Ibrahim, the festivals of the death and resurrection of Adonis--Berytus and its god El; Sidon and its suburbs--Tyre: its foundation, its gods, its necropolis, its domain in the Lebanon._

_Isolation of the Phoenicians with regard to the other nations of Syria; their love of the sea and the causes which developed it--Legendary accounts of the beginning of their colonization--Their commercial proceedings, their banks and factories; their ships--Cyprus, its wealth, its occupations--The Phoenician colonies in Asia Minor and the Ægean Sea: purple dye--The nations of the Ægean._