A few days ago
Gail

When and how did Phoenicia become a great sea trading power?

When and how did Phoenicia become a great sea trading power

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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start from here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia#Origins
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A few days ago
vanilli
The Phoenicians were a great sea power. They set up trading stations all round the Mediterranean coast, even venturing out into the Atlantic founding what was to become Cadiz in SW Spain. Carthage in present-day Tunisia was founded by them as early as 800 BC. It was eventually to become more important than Phoenicia, only to be destroyed in 146 BC by the Romans during the Punic wars.

Wherever the Phoenicians went they took their language with them. Their illiterate trading partners must have been intrigued to learn about the system of writing that they used. Some of them copied it and used the letters to write their own language.

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