His off-springs formed major powers, and repeatedly tried to control the regions of Egypt, Syria and Phoenicia.
The Hittites having their strong base in Anatolia and Northern Syria were in continuous wars with Egypt and tried several times to invade the lands.
Later all those hostilities ended with the famous battle of Kaddish, which was resulted with both; Hittites and Egyptians declaring amazing victory.
However both were extremely exhausted and many important political changes happened in the aftermath of the battle.
The Jebusites were also offspring of Canaan, settled in Philistine and built a city and named Jebus which is now the city of Jerusalem. Later Jebus was conquered by King David.
The Amorites who were described in the Bible as the Giants, probably are the same people of Eram in the Koran.
They were the inhabitants of Parts of Arabia, Jordan and North Syria.
The Bibles tell that they were conquered by Joshua, as the Israelites were ordered to destroy all the inhabitants of Canaan, however the Gibenonites (offshoots of Amorite) tricked them to a treaty that kept their lives but only as slaves.
The Elamites were descendants of Elam son of Shem and inhabited the lands southwest of Iran and Iraq.
They were later conquered by the Sumerian king Enmebargesi, and the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who put the Hammurabi Code, a law that was written before the Mosaic Code, a matter which was subject to disputes between civilizations for many centuries to come, probably till our days.
To be continued
Sami Cherkaoui
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