What did Phoenician children wear?
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.
Did the Phoenicians have education?
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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When was the 22 letter alphabet created by Phoenicians?
it was in existence by 1050 BCE, but it's exact date of origin is unknown.
What are the two cultural contributions of the Phoenicians?
Two important developments of the Phonecians were the alphabet and trading. I hope this helps!
What were the Phoenicians problems?
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)
Why was the Phoenician alphabet so important?
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.
Which explains why the Phoenicians developed a currency?
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.
Why did the Phoenicians turn to the sea to make a living?
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.
What was the technology of the Phoenicians?
The Phoenicians contributed their language to the vast trading network.
Were the Phoenicians monotheists?
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.)
How did the Phoenicians spread their alphabet?
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.
What did the Phoenicians compete with the Minoans for?
They did not fight each other - one was in he Levant, the other in Crete.
What was the legacy of the Phoenicians?
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.
What was the Phoenician seaport?
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.
When did the Phoenicians barter?
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.
What advantages did the Phoenician ships enjoy?
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.
Why didn't the Phoenician colonies unite?
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.
Why are the Phoenicians important?
The Phoenicians are known for their trading skills and for the purple dye they made from a special snail that had dye in its shell. They are also known, of course, for spreading their alphabet far and wide; almost all modern phonetic alphabets are derived from this alphabet.
What ideas did the Greeks adopt from the Phoenicians?
None. It was thought that the Greeks adopted the alphabet and the color named 'tyrian purple'. The reverse is actually the case as the Phoenicians did not have an alphabet they had a cuneiform script lacking any vowels. The Greek proper alphabet of linear A and linear B both predate phoenician cuneiform script.
The archaeological findings in Crete at Komos has unearthed murex shells (used to make 'Tyrian purple', which show that the Minoans cultivated the sea-snail in factory farms for the production of the purple dye at least 300 years before it appeared in Tyre.
The Phoenicians did however become strong traders using the ships and celestial navigation adopted from the Greeks.
What tree did the Phoenicians use to build their boats?
The Phoenicians used Cedar trees to build their boats
It was a group of independent Semitic city-states in modern day Lebanon, western Syria and northern Palestine plus Carthage in Tunisia, and have been replaced today by those countries. The Phoenicians were very successful sea traders in the first century BCE, going a far as Britain where they brought tin back to use and sell as a component of bronze.
They were absorbed into the Persian Empire and eventually the Roman Empire.