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What were sea trading people along the eastern Mediterranean sea called?
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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 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 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.
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
Who did the people of Pompeii have contact with?
They had contacts all over the world, from Britain, the Mediterranean, France, western Europe. They used these connections for trading.
How did Carthage become so powerful?
Carthage was a city-state that many people believe was the result of the seaman ship of the ancient Phoenicians. They were a trading and commerce people in the Eastern Mediterranean. Their explorations of the eastern part of the that sea had ample supplies and chances to gain wealth by trade, diplomacy and war if needed. Carthage was in a central part of the Mediterranean and gave them access to the wealth of Sicily and eastern Spain. With their wealth they were able to supplement their own military strength by hiring armies of mercenaries. Alliances with Greek colonies in the Mediterranean helped their power & wealth.
What do you think THAT the rome called the Mediterranean our sea?
The Romans called the Mediterranean mare nostrum (our sea) because the had conquered all the lands around this sea and the Mediterranean was the heart of their empire. The Roman themselves were Mediterranean people. Rome is only 16 miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is part of the western Mediterranean.
