ocr: civilization affected by the culture of the infiltrating nomads, and this primitive desert way of life has in its turn been refined and transmuted by contact with the civilizations of the more technologically advanced peoples. The histories of the Amorites, the Aramaeans and the Moslem Arabs, to give but three examples, all illustrate the truth of this statement, but the process by which the desert has invaded the sown is nowhere more clearly apparent than in the stages by which an Arabian tribe called the Naba- taeans settled down in southern Palestine and Jordan during the centuries immediat ...
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