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Phoenicians
Title: Phoenicians
Category: History
Details: Words: 1199 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Phoenicians
At the dawn of history in the Middle East, a people of Semitic origin migrated into a very narrow, coastal strip of the Fertile Crescent, which is
now known as Lebanon. These ancient people were known as Canaanites,
or Armorites, but were later called Phoenicians by the Greeks. Phoenicia
comes from the Greek word for purple because of the rare purple dye that they exported. As a result of Phoenicia’s small area, they depended …showed first 75 words of 1199 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1199 total…colonize many distant areas
in the known world. They were the first civilization that ever create a condensed alphabet, using symbols to represent sounds instead of the Sumerian
and Egyptian representation of objects. This alphabet was the foundation
of the alphabets used in Western civilization. Without the Phoenicians contributions, modern society might be a very different place. A different
form of sea navigation might be used and a different kind of writing might
be used.
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