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The Phoenicians have always been considered the merchant sea people of the Levant. I'm not too clear on why the article doesn't seem to make that connection. Th
by anonu 5y ago
The Phoenicians have always been considered the merchant sea people of the Levant. I'm not too clear on why the article doesn't seem to make that connection. The Phoenicians made glass, and a prized purple dye harvested from the murex snail. Cedar wood that was in abundance was used to make ships. With these things, the Phoenicians were able to establish trade routes with far off cities to the West of them.
- wolf550e 5y agoThe Bible certainly doesn't think the people of Tyre and Sidon were the same people as those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron and Gath. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithobaal_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithobaal_I and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
- philwelch 5y agoI think he’s writing more about where the sea people came from rather than where they ended up afterwards. But yes, the Phoenicians, and hence the Carthaginians, being descendants of the Mycenaean Greeks does provide yet another example of Greek/Italic conflict.
- mcguire 5y agoI'm not sure what connection you refer to. The Phoenicians are not referred to until ~1500BCE, by which time the Mycenaean and Minoans had been doing their things (mostly trading) for a few hundred years. The Phoenicians didn't peak until after the Late Bronze Age Situation (~1200BCE).