Phoenicia

An alphabetic system of writing which was adapted by Greek and Roman writing, and forms the basis of the common alphabet we use today. It replaced the old scripts which were symbols representing syllables and far less efficient, flexible and communicative than the Phoenician-based scripts.

they traded by the Mediterranean Sea by boats, and they used the silk road.

Byblos, which gave rise to modern words such as bibliography.

the Phoenician alphabet developed into our modern day alphabet and it helps us communicate.

In 334 BCE Alexander the Great conquered Baalbek and marched on to subdue the cities of Byblos and Sidon in 332 BCE. At this point Alexander ordered the siege of Tyre and was so determined to take the city that he built a causeway from the ruins of the old city, debris, and felled trees, from the mainland to the island (which, owing to sediment deposits over the centuries is why Tyre is not an island today), and, after seven months, breached the walls and massacred most of the populace.

Religion was an important aspect and part of Phoenician society.

Work in the fields, at home or business activity, trading at home and abroad. fighting off enemies, raising families, enjoying whatever leisure they could fit in amongst the previous activities.

# The alphabet. The ancient Greeks had lost the use of their old alphabet, known as linear-B, during the Greek Dark Ages. When Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages, it adopted and modified the Phoenician alphabet. The Romans, in turn, adopted and modified the Greek alphabet, to become the alphabet we use in the West. # Trade and commerce. The Phoenicians were great maritime traders. They established colonies all around the Mediterranean, including Carthage and even Spain. Rome was forced to become more outward-looking as a result of Phoenician expansion. # Religion. Some, but not all, of the ancient gods and theology of Greece were adopted from Phoenician influence.

The Phoenicians developed a writing system in roughly 1200 B.C.E. It was developed in order to facilitate trade throughout the eastern Mediterranean, particularily with the pre-Dark Age (or Mycenaean) Greeks and the Egyptions.

They traded dyestuffs (Tyrian purple), salt, cedar logs, perfume, cloth, and glass trinkets. As they expanded their trade west through the Mediterranean and east to Mesopotamia, they engaged in carriage trade, ie shipping other peoples' produce for them, which extended their trade goods to include grains, spices, metals, skins, meat, garments, even going as far as Cornwall for tin.

The Phoenician civilization came from the so called "people of the sea", of unknown origin, that arrived in ships, first in the region that today is Palestine and Israel, about 20 centuries b.c. and, by conquering the land from the Egiptian's. founded a kind of state that later derived into the Filistins. Centuries later, part of this people moved to the north, and conquered from the hitites the region that correspond today to Lebanon and founded the Phoenician civilization. Ibrahim Abrahão Chaim Brazil

The really BIG contribution of the Phoenicians was the alphabet. It's been refined, but it is basically the same alphabet we in the West use. Also, in a round about way, they helped Rome to expand its territories and wealth. Carthage was a city fouded by the Phoenicians, and when the Romans won the Punic wars, they took over all Carthage's territories and the wealth that came with them.

Their most important achievement was the creation of the first real alphabet starting an era of alphabetical linguistic instead of pictograms and ideographs.

There are 3 major ones, the creation of an alphabet later adopted by the Greeks and developed into many modern alphabets. They found and navigated the North Star. Last but not least, they created the first see through glass. But as personal "acheivements" or "medals" to be very proud of, the Phoenicians actually managed to get as far out of the Mediterranean as to actually sail around Africa, starting from the red Sea, and back into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar. For their time, it was the same accomplishment as going out to space.

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Trade. The traded timber, cloth, dyes, wine which they produced, and also carried trade goods they purchased in other places on to other buyers.

Overseas colonies were established by the Phoenicians in order to expand their basic economic specialty, which was gaining wealth and power by trading with other nations. One of its colonies became a world power in the name of Carthage.

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.

To communicate over distances, and to record trade.

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.

The usual for the period - spears, swords, bows, axes.

The alphabet.

Seacoast, rivers, plains, mountains, forests, farmlands.

It was adapted as a basis for Latin and Greek, and so became the basis of today's alphabets.

Farming land, a defensively walled city, a port for trade, and a trading fleet.

The were farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, dyers, weavers, timber workers, shipbuilders, sailors, traders, administrators and soldiers/marines.