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The Canaanites were the earliest known inhabitants of Palestine. They
became urbanized and lived in city-states, one of which was Jericho . They
developed an alphabet. Palestine's location at the center of routes linking
three continents made it the meeting place for religious and cultural
influences from Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor. It was also the
natural battleground for the great powers of the region and subject to
domination by adjacent empires, beginning with Egypt in the 3d millennium BC.
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