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THE PHOENICIANS

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Phoenicians and Greeks | HISTORY OF BOATS AND SHIPS

The Phoenician fleet contains two markedly different designs of ship. A squat and tubby sailing vessel, rounded at both ends, is used for carrying goods and passengers. A longer boat, also rounded at the stern but with a...

Phoenicians and Greeks | HISTORY OF WARFARE - SEA

Phoenicians and Greeks

The Phoenician fleet contains two markedly different designs of ship. A squat and tubby sailing vessel, rounded at both ends, is used for carrying goods and passengers. A longer boat, also rounded at the stern but with a...

Carthage is the largest of the | THE PHOENICIANS

Dido's city

Carthage is the largest of the towns founded by the Phoenicians on the north African coast. It rapidly assumes a leading position among the neighbouring colonies. The traditional date of its founding (by Dido) is 814 BC,...

Carthage is the largest of the | HISTORY OF CARTHAGE

Dido's city

Carthage is the largest of the towns founded by the Phoenicians on the north African coast. It rapidly assumes a leading position among the neighbouring colonies. The traditional date of its founding (by Dido) is 814 BC,...

First the Assyrians dominate the region. | HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND PHOENICIA

Imperial masters

First the Assyrians dominate the region. They demand tribute from the Phoenicians in the 9th century; they destroy the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 and the Phoenician city of Sidon in 678. The Assyrians are followed...

The use of Polaris, the pole | INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

Navigation by Polaris

The use of Polaris, the pole star, as a navigational aid is credited to the Phoenicians (the position of the pole star in the sky is so close to the northern end of the axis on which the earth rotates that it appears sta...

The use of Polaris, the pole | HISTORY OF EXPLORATION

Navigation by Polaris

The use of Polaris, the pole star, as a navigational aid is credited to the Phoenicians (the position of the pole star in the sky is so close to the northern end of the axis on which the earth rotates that it appears sta...

Assyrians and Babylonians are brutal overlords. | HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND PHOENICIA

Imperial masters

Assyrians and Babylonians are brutal overlords. Any change from them can only be for the better. Both the Israelites and the Phoenicians welcome the next imperial power - the Persians in the 6th century....

The Egyptians are trading by sea | HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

Egyptians and Phoenicians

The Egyptians are trading by sea from about 2000 BC. Their commercial partners are the Minoans in Crete and later the Phoenicians.

The Phoenicians, more than any other seafaring people, open up the Mediterranean...

The traders of Marseilles extend a | HISTORY OF FRANCE

Marseilles and the Romans

The traders of Marseilles extend a network of colonies along the coast, and so become the commercial rivals of the Carthaginians, the successors of the Phoenicians in Spain. This makes Marseilles the natural ally of Rome...

Phoenicia is famous for its luxury | HISTORY OF TRADE

Waterborne traffic

Phoenicia is famous for its luxury goods. The cedar wood is not only exported as top-quality timber for architecture and shipbuilding. It is also carved by the Phoenicians, and the same skill is adapted to even more prec...

The first distinctively Mediterranean civilization, that | HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

The Mediterranean

The first distinctively Mediterranean civilization, that of the Aegeans, comes to a sudden and still unexplained end in around 1200 BC. Some 200 years later an energetic seafaring people, the Phoenicians, become extensiv...

Trade up and down great rivers | HISTORY OF TRADE

Europe's inland waterways

Trade up and down great rivers and in coastal waters is as old as civilization. Trade across seas develops as soon as adequate boats are built, most notably by the Phoenicians. The natural next stage is to join river sys...

In Phoenicia, in about 1500 BC, | INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

Glass

In Phoenicia, in about 1500 BC, the making of glass becomes a practical craft. Glass beads are known in Egypt 1000 years earlier, but they are probably shaped from glass which has been formed accidentally where the neces...

The great civlizations of south and | HISTORY OF ASIA

Western Asia from 1000 BC

The great civlizations of south and east Asia - India and China - are relatively isolated by the accidents of geography. But western Asia, and in particular the Mediterranean coast, is vulnerable to invaders from all sid...

By the 10th century the Hebrews, | HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND PHOENICIA

Canaan

By the 10th century the Hebrews, or Israelites, are firmly installed in the southern part of the region with their capital at Jerusalem. The same period is one of prosperity and stability in the north, with several indep...

Pyrrhus has been the Romans' first | HISTORY OF ROME

Enemies overseas

Pyrrhus has been the Romans' first adversary from overseas. Their dismissal of him, and their subsequent capture of the Greek city of Tarentum, sends a clear message to the Mediterranean world. There is a major new power...