Phoenician

Examples of Phoenician in the following topics:

• The Phoenicians

  • All major Phoenician cities were on the coastline of the Mediterranean.
  • Phoenician became one of the most widely used writing systems.
  • Each Phoenician city-state was a politically independent unit.
  • Phoenicians and Canaanites alike were called Sidonians or Tyrians, as one Phoenician city came to prominence after another.
  • Phoenician culture disappeared entirely in the motherland.

• Ancient Carthage

  • Ancient Carthage was a North African, Phoenician civilization that lasted from c. 650 BCE to 146 BCE.
  • Carthaginian religion was based on Phoenician religion (derived from the faiths of the Levant), a form of polytheism.
  • Sardinia and Corsica produced gold and silver for Carthage, and Phoenician settlements on islands, such as Malta and the Balearic Islands, produced commodities that would be sent back to Carthage for large-scale distribution.

• Greek Dark Ages

  • By the mid- to late eight century BCE, a new alphabet system was adopted by the Greek borrowing from the Phoenician writing system.

• Government and Trade in the Achaemenid Empire

  • Under Darius the Great, Persia would become the first empire to inaugurate and deploy an imperial navy, with personnel that included Phoenicians, Egyptians, Cypriots, and Greeks.

• The Islamic Golden Age

  • The Arabs assimilated the scientific knowledge of the civilizations they had conquered, including the ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, and Phoenician civilizations.