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   ocr: trading ships brought exotica for the king's private collections apes and paboons from Africa, and ivory and gold by the ton. He was called the wisest man in the worid, and kings and queens traveled hundreds of miles to meet him. They left dazzled by the genius of srael's king and by the prosperity of his nation. srael reached its jolden Age under King Solomon, a shining noment of tranquillity in its long, tormented history. 4lmost all the romised Land lay in Solomon's domain, and the nation was - at peace. Literature and culture flourished. Of the common people, the Bible reports simply that ...