The Phoenician Mediterranean
Tides of History
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Sardinian Pottery and Sardinia Pottery
The Phoenicians built a wide-ranging and exceptionally profitable trade network covering the entire Mediterranean. There would have been no Mediterranean world as a shared space of trade and culture if not for these early stages of Phoenician expansion. The enormous Greek expansion was the product of a dizzying array of changes within Greece itself during what we call the Archaic period. And that's what we'll talk about next time on Tides of History.
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