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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | The Phoenicians develop the war galley, with a sharp battering ram in the bow | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | Phoenician sailors use the pole star for navigational purposes | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The abacus is used as an everyday method of calculation by Phoenicians and Babylonians | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Tyre and Sidon have by now replaced Byblos as the dominant cities within Phoenicia | |
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| c. 970 BC |
| | | Hiram, the Phoenician king of Tyre, is an enthusiastic trading partner of King David in Jerusalem, and later of Solomon | |
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| c. 950 BC |
| | | Wood from the famous cedars of Lebanon is only one of the many luxury goods traded by the Phoenicians | |
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| -868 BC |
| | | Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | Citium, in Cyprus, is the first of many Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean | |
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| c. -814 BC |
| | | The traditional date of the founding of Carthage (supposedly by the mythical queen Dido, but in practice by Phoenicians) | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega | |
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