1. The Phoenicians
The Phoenicians were a very intelligent culture they developed the alphabet, they were excellent ship builders, they also traded with many other cultures such as the Greek (which is where cultural diffusion took place and the Greeks adopted the alphabet but added the important vowels the Phoenicians left out. The Phoenicians also spoke a dialect and used coin money.
The Phoenicians were very good wood and metal workers. They made and used furniture, metal work, and especially glassware. The Phoenicians were also well known for their purple dye known as "Tyrian Purple." They had an excellent navy and used the stars to navigate. They controlled many city-states and eventually sailed North to Spain, Ireland, and England.
There was a huge demand for metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, and nickel. They would also make things like bronze and iron. The Phoenicians also possessed the skill of dentistry, which is evident by the fine braces on a lower jaw of a skull. In Massachusetts and Iowa there are Punic inscriptions that prove the Phoenicians had reached North America in BC. The Phoenician language is actually still spoken today in Malta.
The Phoenicians also had a government. The first parliament ever in the Middle East met in the Phoenician confederate city of Tripoli. The Phoenicians were very peaceful though they enjoyed things such as art and explored North, South, East and west of because they loved adventure. They were one of strongest civilizations though because of their excellent navy. They united various races and many through friendly links, through this method they softened them and humanized them.
The Phoenicians also spoke a dialect and used coin money. The Phoenicians were very good wood and metal workers. ... The Phoenicians were also well known for their purple dye known as "Tyrian Purple." ... The Phoenician language is actually still spoken today in Malta. The Phoenicians also had a government. ...
Of the many advancements the Phoenicians made in the ancient world, the most well known and prolific was the development and enhancement of sea travel. Although they did not reach the height of their power at sea until after 1000 B.C.E.,1 over five hundred years after the true beginning of the Phoenician empire circa 1550 B.C.E.,2 it is obvious that the Phoenicians were the true power at sea in the ancient Mediterranean. ... Due to their lack of military prowess and, more importantly, their proclivity for trade by sea, the Phoenicians set up many colonies along the shore of North Africa and Sp...
The Phoenicians: Traders of the World From 1200 to 800 B.C., the Semitic-speaking Phoenicians lived and prospered on the Mediterranean coast, north of Palestine. ... The words Bible and bibliography come from the Phoenician city of Byblos. The Phoenicians traded with people all around the Mediterranean Sea. ... A few Phoenician traders braved the stormy Atlantic, and sailed as far as England. ... The Phoenicians were a great people who should be remembered so. ...
The next dominant people to arrive were the powerful Phoenicians, who came due to the recent wealth in mining. The Phoenicians established a number of trading posts on the coast of Spain. ... After the Phoenicians came, Greek settlers moved in and established several towns thus threatening the Phoenicians for power and land. The Phoenicians then called upon the Cathaginians whom helped them take possession of Spain under the orders of Hamilcar Barca. Because of the feud between the two, Rome put a border to separate them and the Phoenicians. ...
There are certain theories of how and from where the Phoenicians originated. Among these theories one of them is, the Phoenicians were a group of people known as Canaanites, who many years earlier came to the wide swath of land between Anatolia (at present Turkey) and Egypt. Another theory talks about how the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC conquered the existing cities at Byblos, Sidon, Tyre and the towns around them and the merging of the Sea Peoples with these inhabitants created the Phoenicians. Basically the question of how the Phoenicians' originated still continues. ... The Phoenicians ...
The Phoenicians helped link settlements throughout the Mediterranean region; influences and ideas were absorbed from other areas, including Egypt and Mesopotamia. Sui Generis is a writing script developed in Byblos, the oldest Phoenician city-state; it used pictographic signs devoid of any remaining pictorial meaning. ... The oldest Phoenician inscription is located on the lid of the sarcophagus of the Byblos king Ahiram. ... The Phoenician alphabet was adopted by the ancient Greeks and spread through their city-states in 1000 BCE. In 700 BCE a cultural renaissance occurred with the creation o...
The Athenian squadron came face to face with the Phoenicians, who formed the Persian left wing and the Lacedeamonians faced the ships of Ionia, which were stationed on the Piraeus, or eastern side. ... The Phoenicians came to Xerxes to appeal against the Ionians, were they claimed it was due to the Ionians treachery that they had lost their ships. ... After Xerxes had seen that fine piece of work by a Ionian ship he turned to the Phoenicians and ordered their heads to be cut off from casting cowardly acquisitions against their finer men. ...
Lebanon was settled by the Phoenicians (people from the Arabian Peninsula) around 3500BC. ... During the Jewish monarchy it appears to have been subject to the Phoenicians. ... The early Phoenicians built their cities on islands to make them defensible, used wood from the cedar forests to construct a fleet, and explored the entire Mediterranean. ... When ancient writers mention Lebanon they always refer to the strip along the Mediterranean which was occupied by the Phoenicians. ...