WHEN ARABIA WAS “EASTERN ETHIOPIA” Part IBy Dana MarnicheThe Indigenous Populations of ArabiaThe following quotes are from 19th and early 20th century Western historians, whom unlike today’shistorians, understood the strong connection of the original Arabians with the Ethiopic peoples ofAfrica.1869 “The Cushites. the first inhabitants of Arabia, arc known in the national traditions by the name ofAdites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad, the grandson of Ham.” — The New Larned history forReady Reference Reading and Research, 1922citing F. Lenormant, Manual of Ancient History, bk. 7,ch. 2. published 1869.1869 - “To the Cushite race belongs the oldest and purest Arabian blood, and also that great and veryancient civilization whose ruins abound in almost every district of the country. ..The south Arabsrepresent a residue of hamitic populations which at one time occupied the whole of Arabia. “ JohnBaldwin from Pre-historic nations or inquiries Concerning Some of the Great peoples and Civilizationsof Antiquity. Harpers 18691881 “ A third body of the Cushites went to the north of the Egypt and founded, on the east of theDelta, the kingdom of the so-called Hyksos , whom tradition designated sometimes as Phoenicianssometimes as Arabians, and in both cases rightly…Lepsius has proved by excellent reasons theCushite origins of the Hyksos statues from San (Tanis) now in the museum of Boulaq and has mademore than merely probable the immigration of the Cushites into the region of the Delta…” p. 402Heinrich Karl Brugsh in A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs Derived Entirely from the Monuments,published by John Murray 1881, Vol 2, 2nd edition.1872 - “Mr. Baldwin draws a marked distinction between the modern Mahomedan Semitic population ofArabia and their great Cushite, Hamite, or Ethiopian predecessors. The former, he says, ‘arecomparatively modern in Arabia,’ they have ‘appropriated the reputation of the old race,’ and haveunduly occupied the chief attention of modern scholars.” Traditions Superstitions and Folklore, CharlesHardwick , Manchester A. Ireland and Company, 18721891 - …the Cushite Arabians and the Chaldeans, the founders of the first historic civilization inBabylonia being certainly Hamitic, though early mixed with Semitic tribes, long before Assyrian rule.Charles William Hutson , The Beginnings of Civilization, The Columbian Publishing Co., New York.1891.
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