Lebanese history is very interesting. Lebanon was settled by the Phoenicians (people from the Arabian Peninsula) around 3500BC. Their main cities that were established were Beirut, Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, and Baalbek. In 64BC, these cities fell to the Roman Empire as a part of the providence of Syria. Lebanon was originally inhabited by the Hivites and Giblites. The whole mountain range was assigned to the Israelites, but was never conquered by them. During the Jewish monarchy it appears to have been subject to the Phoenicians. From the Greek conquest until modern times Lebanon had no separate history from the other countries. Lebanon occurs in history in reference as do the cedar trees which were used in the marine industry.

By 300AD, Christianity was firmly established. In fact, Lebanon became home to many religious minorities (most

The chief natural resource of Lebanon is water. The mountains give a high rainfall (widely over a meter a year in Mount Lebanon), and the porous fractured limestone makes an excellent aquifer which are refilled over spring and early summer by the slow melting of the snow. This results in abundant springs and rivers, which once gave Lebanon its thick wooded forests.

The line of cultivation runs along at the height of about 6000 feet; and below this the features of the western slopes are entirely different. The rugged limestone banks are scantily bared with the evergreen oaks, and the sandstone with pines, while every available spot is carefully cultivated. Fig trees cling to the rock, vines are hung along narrow ledges, long ranges of mulberries on terraces, cover the more gentle declivities; and dense groves of olives fill up the bottoms of the glens. Hundreds of villages are seen - here built among labyrinths of rocks, there clinging like they are about to drop off; while convents, are numerously are perched on the top of every peak.

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