The Peopling of the Earth

SHEM

The country immediately peopled by Shem and his sons lay between that of Ham and Japheth, and stretched from the western extremity of Asia Minor, and the mountains of Armenia, over all the valley drained by the Tigris and the Euphrates, and down both sides of the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean. POTE 288.1

The first named of the sons of Shem is POTE 288.2