It was a group of independent city-states with a common ethnic background. They elected to deal with and expanding population by trade rather than conquest. They traded around the Mediterranean Sea, going as far afield as the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, and to Britain for tin. They developed an alphabet which became the basis for Greek and Latin and hence the alphabets we use today. They were absorbed first into the Persian Empire, then the Roman Empire.
Malta is the city consisting of three islands where the Phoenicians settled in 1000BC.
The Punic Wars (Punic comes from the Greek word for Phoenicians - the Carthaginians were Phoenicians).
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Carthage.
Foodstuffs, timber, minerals, manufactured goods.
sailing skills
The name is Punic. Punic was the Roman name for the Phoenicians. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians who originated from Tyre, the main city on Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon).
Punicus was originally the Latin name for the Phoenicians. Later it came to mean Carthaginian (the Carthaginians were Phoenicians). The Punic Wars (there were three of them) were fought between Rome and Carthage.
facts about bounty
the three facts are me myself and i
there are loads and loads! The three most people know are of course Egypt, Greece and Rome
Ocean-going ship design, navigation by the stars, alphabetic writing.
Mr. Gradgrind, from Charles Dicken's famous novel Hard Times, had a three word motto: "Facts, sir, facts."