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Probably more than Rome now, but even so at the time they were not quite powerful militarily. The Phoenician never succeeded in building an empire or a military
by csomar 3y ago
Probably more than Rome now, but even so at the time they were not quite powerful militarily. The Phoenician never succeeded in building an empire or a military power. Carthage was the "best" and even them they sucked much comparing to the Roman/Italians. Carthage itself didn't have a military but hired mercenaries. The Phoenicians are a bunch of rich merchants and they probably re-arranged themselves in the new empire.
- dopidopHN 3y agoAbsolutely, I’m on a Phoenician kicks those days. I think they are vastly underestimated. For instance their navy and how they were building ships in a industrial manner is impressive. ( sourcing ready made parts from different specialized places) But clearly those guys were not empire builder. They would probably have been happy to keep being a Roman protectorate after the Punic wars. They were still making tons of money via the Iberia trades. Like they did under the Egyptian or the Assyrian. Something I still don’t quiet grasp is why we have so little direct written account. They invented those letters ffs.