Phoenicia

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.

What we know as Phoenicians were actually survivors of the Second Upheaval in Atlantis (it was called the White Isles then) when the continent had separated into ocean and five separate colonies. As the earth was considerably warmer at this time, it would be wise to say that they dressed in light clothes, sandals, maybe togas. When Atlantis finally went down, the weather changed drastically and a cold period followed and, yes, at this time they began to dress warmly.

The city of Carthage located in today's Tunisia. It became a powerful trading city, and came in conflict with the rising power Rome, which eventually destroyed the city and sold its peo0ple into slavery to get rid of a serious rival.

No they did not. If you are talking about formal education such as elementary and middle, then no. But there was informal education from the elders in the household. There might also be other adults that could teach the younger people. But, they did not care as much about reading and writing as they did trading, hunting, etc.

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The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.

it was in existence by 1050 BCE, but it's exact date of origin is unknown.

Two important developments of the Phonecians were the alphabet and trading. I hope this helps!

they were not many scribes....and they needed messengers,or people who kept track of who died and was born to this world..........................(student of clifton)

It was the first purely phonetic writing system in the history of humanity (as far as we know). It was an alphabet of only 22 letters, compared to the thousands of symbols required to read Egyptian or Sumerian.

Without a currency, payment is made in goods (including precious metals) and services. A currency can save lugging wagonloads and shiploads of goods around unnecessarily. Trade was a principal activity for the Phoenician cities, so currency served them well.

Land transport was prohibitively slow and expensive. A couple of draft animals would eat out the cargo they were transporting in 1 ton carts within a week, and would only move 150 km. So for the Phoenicians, with no mechanical or air transport, had no option but to use high-capacity, relatively fast sea transport.

The Phoenicians contributed their language to the vast trading network.

Yes! The Ancient Greeks were very polytheistic. They believed in numerous (12, I think) major gods (or Olympians) and innumerable minor gods (such as river gods, nymphs, etc.)

The ancient mercantile civilization of Phoenicia helped to spread civilization in ancient times primarily through its daring, far-ranging seafaring voyages. Motivated by trading interests above all, yet perhaps also spurred on by the desire to explore for its own sake, Phoenician traders were for many generations the "go-betweens" of older civilizations in the east and newer, rougher societies elsewhere in the Mediterranean and beyond. They carried trade goods, yet at the same time they carried technologies, ideas, and values from one point to another.

They did not fight each other - one was in he Levant, the other in Crete.

Their monotheistic beliefs inspired Judeo-Christian religion.

Their development of alphabetic writing system was adapted by the Greeks.

Their system of legal codification was adopted by reomans.

Their establishment of Bureaucratic state influenced political structure of Persian Empire.

You pronounce phoenician like this: (FO-nee-see-an)

There were many important Phoenician ports and traade centers throughout the Mediterranean.

The culture started on the east end of the Med, so a good answer would be Tripoli.

Before the introduced currency, all trades, from buying bread in the market to buying tin in Britain was by barter or with bars of precious metals.

After they introduced coinage, this could pay for goods and services at home or in the trading colonies they established around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

They carried cargo for trade, were equipped as warships for defence, and could navigate out of sight of land using the Polar Star as a guide.

When they settled in Syria-Lebanon, their different tribes formed independent city-states each with their separate land, city centre and government. These cities liked their independence and had no desire to submit to other cities.

Systematic carriage trade and an alphabet.