Category: Phoenicia

Navigators measured the angle of Polaris (North Star) at their homeport. To return they sailed until the star was at the angle of homeport – then turn left or right and “sail down the latitude,”keeping the angle the same all READ MORE

The Mediterranean Sea.

The ancient Levant area is the modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,Israel, Palestine, Sinai, Cyprus. It was an area of Asia Minorthat, back in time, had no cohesive large government. Rather, itwas a collection of small entities.

Phoenician of course, a sub-set of the Semitic language group which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic…

Hittites – expansion.Phoenicia – prosperity.

Greek and Latin alphabets were adopted and adapted from thePhoenician one, as are our alphabets of today.

They occupied a limited land area which could not support anexpanding population. As their city-states were located on theMediterranean Sea, they turned to sea trading, and became greatmerchants.

Rome took over more than three islands: Sicily, Sardinia, Corsicaand the group of the Balearic Islands.

They initially traded their own produce of timber, gems, metals,cites and foodstuffs, then expanded into carry trade – shippingcommodities between other producers and markets.

They initially traded their own produce of timber, gems, metals,cites and foodstuffs, then expanded into carry trade – shippingcommodities between other producers and markets.