Like any people, most people acted on instincts. A small proportion used logical thought to solve problems: like inventing things to solve their needs, like their alphabet to enhance written communication and record keeping; and using the North Star to navigate out of sight of land; and establing a trading empire theoughout the Mediterranean.
romans
The Phonecians
Mainly Egypt and Mesopotamia.
phoenicians
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The middle east spread their ideas by warfare and conquests
Alphabetic writing.
The plural form of theory is theories.
Putting it simply, theories and ideas are not proven scientific facts, but remain as such, an idea or a theory which have yet still to be proven.
As their religion developed, it absorbed gods and goddesses from Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The Greeks and the Phoenicians did not live far from each other. They both were from the eastern Mediterranean. The Phoenicians lived in modern day Lebanon. The Greeks and Phoenicians were the main traders in the eastern Mediterranean and their fleets dominated these waters. They traded with all the peoples in this area and with each other. Trade brought interexchange of ideas.
The contributions made by the Israelites the Phoenicians and the Lydians affected our lives today since it opened us to new ideas.