{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_phc_phc11_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_phc_phc11_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ane_phc_phc11_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ane/phc/phc11.htm","summary":"A people, or rather a group of peoples, the remnant\u2014the degenerate remnant if you will\u2014of a great civilization, settled on the Palestine coast. They found before them a servile aboriginal population ready to their use, who could relieve them of the necessary but unaccustomed labour of extracting life and wealth from the prolific soil. They were thus free to cultivate the commercial facilities which were already established in the land they made their own.","tags":["Ancient Near East Archaeology","Biblical Peoples","Philistine History","Sea Peoples"],"text":null,"title":"The Philistines: Chapter IV. The Culture of the Philistin...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","translated_text":null,"word_count":5905}