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The term Semitemeans a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including; Akkadians (Assyrians andBabylonians), Eblaites, Ugarites, Canaanites, Phoenicians(including Carthaginians), Hebrews (Israelites, Judeans andSamaritans), Ahlamu, Arameans, Chaldeans, Amorites,Moabites, Edomites, Hyksos, Arabs, Nabateans, Maganites,Shebans, Sutu, Ubarites, Dilmunites, Maltese, Mandaeans,Sabians, Syriacs, Mhallami, Amalekites and Ethiopian Semites.
Semitic peoples are generally referred to by language and an ethnic group of peoples. In the past the language of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Punic, Aramaic, ancient Hebrew, Arabic were among the semitic languages.
Using the ethnic classification of today's world, the two main groups of Semitic peoples are Arabic and modern day Jews.
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Who developed the first alphabet?
It is generally held to be the invention of a Semitic people in the middle east about 1800 B.C. It was spread by the Phoenicians and the Greek alphabet was derived from it.
Who were the Amorites?
The Amorites are descendants of Amori the fourth son of Canaan and Canaan is the son of Ham, so they are Hamitic in origin not Semitic. For them to be Semitic they would have to descend from Shem, hence the term Semitic witch means descendants of Shem, their history and ancestry shows them to be of Hamitic origin the language they spoke may be related to the Semitic one but language does not change the DNA of a person or a tribe, many archeologist have made this mistake in clasifiyig them as Semitic base on the language they spoke and this has lead to many confusing theories about their origin.Canaan had eleven sons, these are the names of his sons in the order in witch they were born Zidon ( also know as Sidon) Heth, Jebus, Amori, Girgash, Hivite, Arkee, Sini, Arvad, Zemari, Hamath.
Was there any important people during Aphrodite's time?
'Aphrodite's time' stretches into ancient history of Greece during the time when the mythology of today was the religion of then; there were many people who were regarded as important then who we do not remember and many still that we do remember.
Semitic Asians who came to power in Egypt near the end of the Middle Kingdom were called?
the Hyksos
Which group of people brought the horse and chariot to the country of Egypt?
THE HYKSOS were a group of Semitic invaders from the Levant who first brought the chariot into Egypt. (Egypt already had horses, but it was the use of chariots that made the horses a formidable part of a fighting retinue.)
