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A glossary of historical terms

Joshua

Hebrew warrior who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites. According to the Bible he led the invasion of Canaan, though other evidence indicates a more episodic process of conquest and peaceful colonization during the 12th-11th centuries BC.

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