Phoenicia was an very vintage civilization centralised in the north of very vintage Canaan, with its heartland along the seaboard districts of up to date day Lebanon, Syria, and to the north Israel. Phoenician civilization was an innovative maritime trading heritage that disperse over the Mediterranean throughout the time span 1550 BC to 300 BC. The Phoenicians often swapped via a galley, a man-powered cruising vessel, and are credited with the creation of the bireme.
It is indecisive to what bounds the Phoenicians considered themselves as a solitary ethnicity. Their civilization was directed in city-states, comparable to aged Greece. Each city-state was an unconnected unit conservatively, and they could draw close into clash and one habitation could be controlled by another city-state, though they would join in governing bodies or alliances. Though aged boundaries of such city-centered societies fluctuated, the habitation of Tyre looks like to have been the southernmost. Sarepta between Sidon and Tyre is the most systematically excavated habitation of the Phoenician homeland.
The Phoenicians were the first state-level society to generate extensive exercise of the alphabet. The Phoenician phonetic alphabet is commonly considered to be the ancestor of close to all modern alphabets, even so it did not retain any vowels. Phoenicians articulated the Phoenician words, which belongs to the assembly of Canaanite languages in the Semitic words family. Through their maritime deal, the Phoenicians spread the exercise of the alphabet to North Africa and Europe, where it was supported by the Greeks, any person who resultant surpassed it on to the Etruscans, any person who transmitted it to the Romans. In supplement to their many inscriptions, the Phoenicians were considered to have withdrew more other kinds of written lineages, but bulk have not survived. Evangelical Preparation by Eusebius of Caesarea quotes extensively from Philo of Byblos and Sanchuniathon.
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