A few years later, on the accession of Sargon, Hamath made a final effort to recover its freedom.

But the effort was ruthlessly crushed, and henceforward the last of the Aramaean kingdoms was made an Assyrian province.

When an Aramaean tribe again played a part in history it was in the far south, among the rocky cliffs of Petra and the desert fortress of the Nabathean merchants.
In the Book of Genesis, Mesopotamia, the country between the Euphrates and Tigris, is called not only Aram-Naharaim, "Aram of the Two Rivers," but also Padan-Aram, "the acre of Aram." Padan, as we learn from the Assyrian inscriptions, originally signified as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough; then it came to denote the "cultivated land" or "acre" itself.

The word still survives in modern Arabic.

In the Egypt of to-day land is measured by _feddans_, the _feddan_ (or _paddmi_) being the equivalent of our acre.