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THE PHOENICIANS created the Mediterranean as we know it. They are theconstantly underrated, even marginalized “third party” in a story written as atale of Greek and Roman success. But it is no exaggeration to say that theworld that the Greeks and Romans experienced, and to some extent the worldwe live in today, would have been quite different had the Phoenicians notexisted. Greeks and Romans, and many others throughout the Mediterranean,may not have started using alphabetic writing when they did; hence, literacyand even the development of genres such as history or philosophy might havebeen delayed—even for centuries. Moreover, the Phoenician commercial andcolonial expansion starting in the late ninth century BCE laid out pan-Mediterranean networks and models on which the Greek’s own colonialexpansion thrived. And were it not for Carthage’s grip on the central andwestern Mediterranean after 500 BCE, Rome might not have engaged in thewars that led to its own expansion into Sicily, Sardinia, and Iberia, whichproved to be the foundation of its empire outside of Italy. It was thePhoenicians who first explored the Atlantic shores of Africa and northernEurope (key sources of tin, codfish,

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Author

Carolina López-Ruiz; Brian R. Doak

Publisher

Oxford University Press Academic US

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190058388

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities