The phoenician believed in kings
Phoenicia was based upon independent city states, and eventually, colonies as far away as in Spain.
Every main city was ruled by a king, who had to cooperate with strong representatives of merchant families. http://lexicorient.com/e.o/phoenicia.htm
It is believed that economic opportunity and population
pressures forced them out into the seas.
Organized into individual city-states, each Phoenician city was under
its own form of government. Each had its own god and its own ruler, whose
usually remained in power for life. Gebeil (Byblos) was a strong religious
city-state. Sidon and tyre were cities of Business, industry, and navigation. http://www.lost-civilizations.net/phoenicians-history.html
The
city-states were all linked by their common ancestors, language, and writing.Their mutual interests were their trade arrangements, their customs, and their
rituals and beliefs. Nevertheless, even though they were only a one or two day
march from each other, they never were able to unite as a single power when
they were attacked.
The ancient Phoenicians had kings as their goverment.
The Phoenician through astral navigation.
The ancient Phoenician alphabet is the foundation of the western alphabets.
The medes and the chaldeans
Chinese, Egyptian, Phoenician, Greek, Mayan, etc etc etc.
No one 'discovered' it. It was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet in the 8th Century BCE.
Polytheism.
Each of the Phoenician city-states had its own government. One was Hiram II of Tyre. 739 to 730 BCE.
Phoenician
Phoenician.
In the Levant.
it didn't
Timber and purple dyes.
There are so few ancient Phoenicians around to talk with about it.
They used the star constellation Ursa Minor, called by ancient writers the 'Phoenician Star'.
Doric
Persian Empire, Phoenician trading empire.
The Ancient Greeks adapted it from the Phoenician alphabet