Phoenician Language and Writing by Charles River Editors (.ePUB)
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Phoenician Language and Writing: The History and Legacy of the Ancient World’s Most Influential Script by Charles River Editors
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Overview: Of all the peoples of the ancient Near East, the Phoenicians are among the most recognizable but also perhaps the least understood. The Phoenicians never built an empire like the Egyptians and Assyrians; in fact, the Phoenicians never created a unified Phoenician state but instead existed as independent city-state kingdoms scattered throughout the Mediterranean region. However, despite the fact there was never a “Phoenician Empire,” the Phoenicians proved to be more prolific in their exploration and colonization than any other peoples in world history until the Spanish during the Age of Discovery. The Phoenicians built colonies on the African and European sides of the Mediterranean, and likely led trade expeditions to the British Isles and some unidentified parts of Africa, becoming the first people in the ancient Mediterranean to sail beyond the Straits of Gibraltar. Some ancient sources even claimed they went far beyond that – according to the 5th century BCE Greek historian Herodotus, contemporary Phoenicians claimed to have circumnavigated Africa about 1,500 years before Vasco da Gamma did it for the Portuguese at the end of the 15th century. Later, when the Achaemenid Persians conquered most of the Near East in the 6th century BCE, the Persians used the Phoenicians to lead their navy as they conquered kingdom after kingdom, eventually engaging the Greek city-states in the Greco-Persian Wars.
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