Phoenicia

Tyre as Homebase and Carthage as a Military base and Colony

mountains separated one group of Phoenicians to the other. The only contact was from through narrow mountain pases or by sea. They all spoke the same language and practiced the same religion. They called themselves by the names of their city state. Most has stone wall protection. Ruled by a king. They were very crouded, streets were narrow and buildings tight together. Outside the walls of the city was a port. Where important cloth dyeing centers.

By trading around the Mediterranean and Black Seas and to Babylonia and the eastern caravan trade; and from producing cloth, dye, timber and fish.

We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere. When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone. Also they show the other countries that ships could travel around the globe trading important commodities. Phoenician mariners sailed to Mediterranean and southwestern European ports. The Phoenicians were the great merchants of ancient times. They sold rich treasures from many lands.

They expanded from direct trade - exchanging goods, to carriage trade where the multiplied their trading by carrying goods between other regions. This trade covered foodstuffs, wines, timber, minerals, precious items, fabrics, other manufactured goods and artwork.

Britain, France, Spain, and Africa

They were a Semitic people (Semites) who had established city-states around the Mediterranean Sea, and were known by their city eg Tyre, Sidin, Byblos, Carthage.

The most important were Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Carthage.

Depends who you ask! Greek historians place it's founding around 814 or 813 BCE, other Greek historians (and some Roman ones too) put it at around 776 BCE. Carbon 14 dating places it sometime in the late 9th Century though.

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.

They were famed in Classical Greece and Rome as 'traders in purple', referring to their monopoly on the precious purple dye of the Murex snail, used, among other things, for royal clothing. Their name, Phoenicians, came from Greek Φοίνικες (Phoínikes), and the Greek phoînix "Tyrian purple, crimson; murex" (from phoinós meanings "blood red").

One was an alphabet - sympbols combine to make words.

Cunieform is syllabic.

As well as establishing their own primary production, the Phoenician city-states turned to trading their surplus commodities, and then the commodities of other regions around, from as far afield as Britain (tin) in the west to Mesopotamia in the east, establishing trading stations and cargo and warship fleets to facilitate and protect this.

Simply, it provided good influence to later phonetic languages like Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Greek as well as indirect influence to most languages written in today. The Phoenician alphabet is considered the first real alphabet. Alphabets are undeniably very beneficial to writing, learning, and speaking a language, which is why the Phoenician language was important.

The Phoenicians had numerous colonies, but the central Phoenician area was in central Lebanon, which is due north of Israel along the coast. Phoenician colonies ringed the Mediterranean, making all of them further west than Israel, but some were due west (like Carthage), and others were northwest (like Greece or Spain).

"Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

The Phoenicians were a smaller group than other groups yet they came to dominate the seas. They did it through the alphabet, materials, and antiseptics!

With the alphabet, one person could write records that others could read. This was totally unlike the Egyptians where only a limited caste could read. Thus general literacy made their trading prowess possible.

The Cedar Trees of Lebanon provided the lumber for the Phoenician ships. They were impervious to ship worms. By carefully choosing the materials, for building their boats, the Phoenicians avoided the worms and rot that would affect the boats of so many other nations.

The Phoenicians also discovered that by lining their water barrels with silver, the water would not go bad. Keeping water free from bacteria and mosquitoes kept their crews much healthier that those of other nations.

When we study history, we discover when things started, why they were started, and what problems they solved. We do not need to reinvent the wheel.

the Persian were defeated in the year of 334 B.C.E

As Canaanites, the Phoenicians practiced a very base religion centered around the fertility god Baal; it involved sodomy, bestiality, and ceremonial prostitution, as well as abhorrent rites of child sacrifice. (See PICTURE, Vol. 1, p. 739; CANAAN, CANAANITE No. 2 [Conquest of Canaan by Israel].) The Phoenician city of Baalbek (c. 65 km [40 mi] NE of Beirut) became one of the great centers of polytheistic worship in the ancient world; in Roman times great temples to various gods and goddesses were erected there, the ruins of which can be seen today.

Phoenician did women play the card game 400 and did their kids.

teh got thier food by trade they were known as the sea somthings i forget but the did trade so i think

They traded around the Mediterranean Sea littoral, and went as far afield as Cornwall and the Canary Islands.

The three main trading centers were the cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Carthage, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Phoenicians lasted quite a while, and well into the Iron Age, so they doubtless had iron weapons.

Trade or commerce -- the buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale between geographic areas -- is economic and necessity driven. What one area has, it exports/trades for what it doesn't have/needs or wants. And vice versa. So it's a means of obtaining goods and earning wealth.

The Phoenicians were a maritime society and thus trade was a natural extension. They and the Greeks dominated commerce of the Mediterranean in and around 1400 to 1200 BCE.