Where did the Phoenicians live
Phoenicia, the coastal area of present day Syria/Lebanon, with amajor centre of Carthage in today’s Tunisia.
Phoenicia, the coastal area of present day Syria/Lebanon, with amajor centre of Carthage in today’s Tunisia.
They had limited land, and with a rising population to support,they turned to trade.
It laid siege to the city, captured it, destroyed it, sold thepeople into slavery, and established a Roman military colony on thesite.
They were a people who lived in the Levant, traded around theMediterranean, and invented an alphabet.
Their limited land and growing population forced them to eitherconquest. They elected trade.
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it wasadopted and adapted.
Out – timber, metals, dyes.In – foodstuffs, metals, gems.
The rise of Rome, bent on gaining control of the WesternMediterranean.
Seamanship, trading acumen, self-protection.
It was a limited democracy.
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