Canaanites Culture

Located along the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba is Israel. Lebanon borders to the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan to the east, Palestinian to the west and Egypt to the southwest. Upon independence in 1948, the country formally adopted the name "State of Israel" after other proposed historical and religious names including "the Land of Israel, Zion, and Judea were considered and rejected.
The original Canaanites were a civilized culture consisting of mostly farmers along with several nomad tribes who shaped their judicial system and military after the Mesopotamians. The Canaanite cities were smaller versions of the bigger cities of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia. Canaan, in 1600
Politically and culturally Canaan was dominated by Egypt with each Canaanite city under its own ruler, consequent arguments between the neighboring cities frequently occurred, resulting with the Egyptians providing arbitration in order to settle the differences. The Canaanite city-state system broke down, around the end of 1200BC, and the Canaanite culture was eventually absorbed by the Philistines, Phoenicians and Israelites while still under the political influence of Egypt, in 1050BC, which eventually lost its influence in the
To the north is the Kingdom of Israel, beginning in 928BC, which consists of 10 of the 12 tribes originally from the United Monarch named Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh with Jeroboam, as their king. To the south is the Kingdom of Judah, which begins in 926BC, with Rehoboam as their king and consists of only two of the 12 tribes Judah and Benjamin. The Kingdom of Israel, in 723BC, comes to an end when it is attacked, besieged and conquered by the Neo-Assyrians Empire followed the Neo-Babylonia Empire, in 586BC, who attacks and conquers the Kingdom of