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- 1 What innovation did the Phoenicians develop and spread throughout the Mediterranean region?
- 2 How did Phoenician trading stations develop into colonies?
- 3 What was the ancient name for the Phoenicians?
- 4 How did the Phoenician culture spread around the world?
- 5 When did the Phoenicians start trading with the Greeks?
What innovation did the Phoenicians develop and spread throughout the Mediterranean region?
The Phoenicians spread their alphabet through their vast trading network that stretched throughout the entire Mediterranean region. The Greeks adopted it and by the 8th century B.C.E. had added vowels.
How did Phoenician trading stations develop into colonies?
They had little land to farm so the Phoenician traders brought back imports and then manufactured goods to be exported. 2) They built ships and developed trade routes, shipping items such as logs to be used for building. Trading stations formed into colonies. 3) Their legacy was spread by cultural diffusion.
What are the Phoenicians most famous for contributing to world history?
Perhaps the most significant contribution of the Phoenicians was an alphabetic writing system that became the root of the Western alphabets when the Greeks adopted it.
What was the ancient name for the Phoenicians?
What the Phoenicians actually called themselves is unknown, though it may have been the ancient term Canaanite.
How did the Phoenician culture spread around the world?
The Phoenician culture was enormous and spread all around the world. As a result of their expansion throughout the basin of the Mediterranean Sea and the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, they were the first multinational global culture in history. They covered the Middle East, Northern Africa, the South and West of Europe and the surrounding islands.
What did the Phoenicians do during the Iron Age?
However, much of our knowledge about the Phoenicians during the Iron Age (ca. 1200–500 B.C.) and later is dependent on the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian records, and Greek and Latin authors. For example, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, Phoenician sailors, at the request of the pharaoh Necho II (r. ca. 610–595 B.C.), circumnavigated Africa.
When did the Phoenicians start trading with the Greeks?
By the late eighth century B.C., the Phoenicians, alongside the Greeks, had founded trading posts around the entire Mediterranean and excavations of many of these centers have added significantly to our understanding of Phoenician culture.