phoenicians

     

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Trivia about phoenicians

  • Like the people of an ancient civilization, residents of Phoenix are called this
  • By 700 B.C. these people had established Mediterranean colonies at Utica & Carthage
  • Civilization of sailors that developed 1st Western alphabet
  • In the 1400s B.C. Egypt ruled these supersailors of what's now Lebanon
  • We never "Tyre" of hearing about the seafarers with this Greek name whose major cities included Sidon & Byblos
  • Carthage was a colony of these ancient seafarers
  • People who spoke Semitic languages include these great seafarers whose alphabet led to ours

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