HIST 103 Lecture 13: History 103 - Lecture 13
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A semitic-speaking people, the phoenicians resided along the mediterranean coast on a narrow band of land 120 miles long. After the sea peoples destroyed they had rebuilt their major cities. Their newfound political independence helped the phoenicians broaden the trade which was already the basis of their prosperity. In addition, byblos"s phoenician city was the main distribution center outside egypt for. Egyptian papyrus (the greek word for book, biblos, is derived from byblos " name). Phoenicia"s main cities byblos, tyre, and sidon were ports on the eastern. Mediterranean, but they also operated in mesopotamia as distribution centers for the lands eastward. The phoenicians themselves produced a number of products from lebanon"s popular cedars for foreign markets, including violet dye, glass, wine, and lumber. The phoenicians further developed their ships and became great international sea merchants. They charted new routes, not just in the mediterranean but in the atlantic ocean, where they sailed south along africa"s west coast.
