Absolutely, 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 industr

Absolutely, 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.