How the Phoenicians affected development of civilization in Southwest Asia?

Answer 1

• Phoenicians being next to the sea affected their lives greatly.

• • Because they were next to the sea, they could trade with many other city-states

  • Trading is how the Phoenicians became so rich and wealthy

  • • They traded purple dye, which was very rare, and we discovered it in the sea

  • The Phoenicians spread the alphabet because they were next to the sea, and while trading, men would also trade ideas, like the alphabet. It became spread widely because they had access to many countries like Carthage, Algiers, Tangier,Cadiz, colonies in Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily, Crete, Santorini, Rhodes, and Cyprus.

Answer 2

The Phoenician city-states on the Levant seaboard established an ever-widening trading link with the peoples around the Mediterranean littoral, moving on from trading its own products to the carriage trade - moving goods between other peoples and creaming off profit from the sales. This way they collectively built up a great trading empire that went as far afield as the tin mines of Cornwall, and established a great trading (not physical) empire.

Answer 3

They were surrounded by the water so they made ships and they had fertile soil to

Answer 4

they created the first source of toilet paper in 1689 BC and they had also made the first 365-day clender that was accurate and based off the syrian comet.

Answer 5

There was no Phoenician empire. The independent Phoenician city-states prospered through trade, not conquest.