found: Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 23, 2006(the term Hamitic refers to peoples traditionally believed to have been descended from Ham, one of Noah's sons; during the Middle Ages and up until the early 19th century the term Hamitic was used by Europeans to refer indiscriminately t o Africans; Hamitic race was also identified, referring to those Africans and Europeans considered "advanced" or most similar to themselves and to Semitic peoples; today the Hamitic concepts have been widely discredited and are often referred to as the Hamitic Myth)
