Phoenicia
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- i also know Over the centuries a number of foreign powers controlled all or parts of Phoenicia. They included Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia. The Macedonians, led by Alexander the Great, conquered Phoenicia in 332 BCE. In 64 BCE Phoenicia became a part of the Roman Empire.
- The Phoenicians lived on the seacoast and made their living from the sea. They were skilled shipbuilders and navigators. Their trade routes reached as far as Spain and the British Isles, and trading with others was how they maintained their powerful empire. They built colonies on the northern coast of Africa as well as in southern Europe
- The Phoenicians spoke a language that was similar to Hebrew. Many people claim that Phoenicia is the birthplace of the alphabet as they had their form of writing and an alphabet of 22 letters.
- Historians think that the Phoenicians arrived in Phoenicia in about 3000 BCE. They probably came from the region of the Persian Gulf to the southeast. They built the cities of the capital cities Sidon and Tyre.
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