In the Amarna letters (382 tablets)

~ Every Canaanite ruler opens with the same ritual prostration. Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem (EA 286): he falls at the king's feet "seven times and seven times," calls himself the dirt under Pharaoh's sandals. Rib-Hadda of Byblos repeats this across 60+ letters.

Canaan has always been subordinate to the Nubians South of Kemet - the political center of the zone and region