An essay highlighting some of the pinnacle points in Phoenician history as well as the nation's contributions to humanity in their own time and in our own.
Table of Contents
- The Purple Dye
- The Coinage System
- Travel and Trade
- Carthage and the Punic Wars
- The Language and the Alphabet
Objectives and Key Themes
This text explores the significant and lasting contributions of the Phoenicians to world history. It examines their expertise in seafaring, craftsmanship, and trade, as well as their lasting influence on language, coinage, and cultural development.
- The Phoenicians' innovations in seafaring, trade, and colonization.
- The impact of the Phoenician alphabet on the development of language.
- The rise and fall of the Phoenician city-kingdoms of Sidon, Tyre, and Carthage.
- The Phoenicians' contributions to the development of coinage systems.
- The cultural influences of the Phoenicians on other civilizations.
Chapter Summaries
The text delves into the Phoenicians' renowned purple dye, its production process, and its significance in ancient economies. It describes the shekel, a unit of coinage and weight, its usage in ancient Israel and the Phoenician city of Tyre, and its implications for the Temple tax. The chapter on travel and trade outlines the Phoenicians' role as seafaring traders and their impact on the ancient world's economy. It explores the Phoenician city-kingdoms, their strengths, and their contributions to seafaring. The text then focuses on Carthage, its founding, its rise to power, and its eventual downfall in the Punic Wars. Finally, it discusses the Phoenician alphabet, its unique characteristics, and its long-lasting influence on the development of language and writing systems.
Keywords
The main keywords and focus topics of this text are: Phoenicians, seafaring, trade, colonization, alphabet, coinage, Carthage, Punic Wars, Tyrian purple, shekels, cultural influence, ancient history.
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- John Tuttle (Author), 2017, The Major Enduring Achievements of the Phoenicians, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/378456
