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phoenecians
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| More than 2500 years ago phoenicians mariners sailed to Mediterranean and southwest european ports.Phoenicians were great merchants of the ancient times.phoenicians sold treasures from alot of lands.phoenicians were semic people.phoenicians is a greek name.As ealry as 1500 BC,the phoenicians were known more for making glass bottles and jars,they also made perfume.They sold the jars to Egypt and the Assyrians.the phoenicians were also known as sidonians.Taautos was the inventor of the first written language in 2000 BC or earlier.he was a phoenician.the language is written with 22-character alphabet.the name phoenician was givin to them by the Greeks.Some Greek-Romas had said that the phoenicians sacrifised children.All that was just a myth.Greece and Egypt were the most powerful near the phoenicians.So the phoenicians made treaties,in which they promised to supply free shipment of good in exchange for guaranteed phoenician independence.Phoenician never became a united country.Mountains separaded one group of phoenicians from another.Phoenician means of purple merchants.Each phoenician city had its own city and ruler. | |