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Was Athens a group of trading people on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean?
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Which group of people has NOT ruled over the eastern Mediterranean?
The Finnish have not ruled over the Eastern Mediterranean.
What was the main job in Athens?
Trading, fishing, sailing, and many more jobs were important in ancient Athens. Trading was considered the most important, and most people got their "drachmas" from it.
What were the Phoenicians known as?
The Phoenicians were a Semitic people that built a sea trading civilization in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. By trading overseas, they developed colonies all over the Mediterranean Sea. They built a powerful commercial empire in North Africa called Carthage.
What was the main job in ancient Athens?
Trading, fishing, sailing, and many more jobs were important in ancient Athens. Trading was considered the most important, and most people got their "drachmas" from it.
What are palestinians?
Palestinians are a Middle Eastern/Semitic people originating from the Eastern Mediterranean who have been Islamized and Arabized.
What are Phoenicians in Lebanon?
They were a people from the east who settle in the eastern Mediterranean coast, established cities there, and became active traders, setting up trading stations throughout the Mediterranean Sea and went further afield - to Cornwall for tin, and in the east to Mesopotamia.
Why were Greek colonies along the Mediterranean sea?
Athens was the most active in establishing colonies. The reason was a) that Athens was a trading nation, and it helped having your own people established in places you wanted to trade with. Moreover, its trading and seafaring tradition made it relatively easy to convince people to go and settle elsewhere. And b) Athens had the problem that its mountainous and thickly forested hinterland offered too little space to house and feed a growing population. That made the decision to try your luck elsewhere in a colony with yours kinsmen and in a familiar cultural setting and with regular contact with people from the 'motherland' much easier.
People and customs from what three continents have influenced the eastern mediterranean?
Europe, Asia And Africa
What were the major classical period trading patterns within and among China India and the Mediterranean?
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A powerful seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from about 2000 to 1400 BC were the?
Minoans (:
How did the climate in the eastern Mediterranean affect where people lived?
the dry climate affected people because its water is a key resource
What part of the Mediterraen world did the people of Carthage originate?
Many historians believe that the people of Carthage originated in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. They were a Semitic people who were commercial traders and established ports and towns along the Mediterranean Sea. They were from Phoenicia
