The Phoenician World
The Ancients
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The Myth of the Phoenician Settlement
There is a myth that the phoenicians were purely interested in coastal activities, therefore not really engaged much with the hinter landed. But then that iscan putting them in a different category as trading posts than what we use for greek settlements where there is more emphasis on political organization and agricultural exploitation of the land. So it's very interesting that we'll develop this ticotomy of greek and roman settlement is more agricultural, and phoenician more commercial. I moe o the seafaring people who are more interested in tradeand corrupt and so on. While really, i mean, the romans became a maritime power as soon as they could by copying boat making techniques from
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