Phoenician

Examples of Phoenician in the following topics:

• The Phoenicians

  • All major Phoenician cities were on the coastline of the Mediterranean.
  • Phoenician became one of the most widely used writing systems.
  • Each Phoenician city-state was a politically independent unit.
  • Phoenicians and Canaanites alike were called Sidonians or Tyrians, as one Phoenician city came to prominence after another.
  • Phoenician culture disappeared entirely in the motherland.

• Ancient Carthage

  • Ancient Carthage was a North African, Phoenician civilization that lasted from c. 650 BCE to 146 BCE.
  • Carthaginian religion was based on Phoenician religion (derived from the faiths of the Levant), a form of polytheism.
  • Sardinia and Corsica produced gold and silver for Carthage, and Phoenician settlements on islands, such as Malta and the Balearic Islands, produced commodities that would be sent back to Carthage for large-scale distribution.

• Greek Dark Ages

  • By the mid- to late eight century BCE, a new alphabet system was adopted by the Greek borrowing from the Phoenician writing system.

• Pottery in the Greek Geometric Period

  • The population grew, trade began once more, and the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet for writing.

• The Etruscan Culture

  • The Etruscans established contact with Eastern cultures, including Greeks, Phoenicians, and Egyptians, around 700 BCE, beginning the Orientalizing period of their culture.

• Artifacts of Assyria

  • Additionally, they bear inscriptions in Assyrian cuneiform and Phoenician script, indicating use by speakers of both languages.

• Introduction to Ancient Greece

  • The culture's change in language, adaptation of the Phoenician alphabet, and new funerary practices and material culture suggest the ethnic population changed from the mainland's previous inhabitants, the Mycenaeans.

• Government and Trade in the Achaemenid Empire

  • Under Darius the Great, Persia would become the first empire to inaugurate and deploy an imperial navy, with personnel that included Phoenicians, Egyptians, Cypriots, and Greeks.

• The Islamic Golden Age

  • The Arabs assimilated the scientific knowledge of the civilizations they had conquered, including the ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, and Phoenician civilizations.