The Phoenicians' mercantile network in the prehistoric Mediterranean as regards Western civilizat... more The Phoenicians' mercantile network in the prehistoric Mediterranean as regards Western civilization is examined. Bronze Age sea trade carries Eastern goods and ideas to Minoan Crete. Archaic Greece borrows alphabetical writing, weights and measures, commercial contracts, shipbuilding, and large-scale architecture. Similar cultural interaction occurs on the Italian and Iberian peninsulas. There is the Phoenician-Punic development of the Atlantic façade of Europe. Punic Carthage makes signal contributions in the West. Finally, Roman Carthage promotes Latin Christianity.
The Phoenicians' mercantile network in the prehistoric Mediterranean as regards Western civilizat... more The Phoenicians' mercantile network in the prehistoric Mediterranean as regards Western civilization is examined. Bronze Age sea trade carries Eastern goods and ideas to Minoan Crete. Archaic Greece borrows alphabetical writing, weights and measures, commercial contracts, shipbuilding, and large-scale architecture. Similar cultural interaction occurs on the Italian and Iberian peninsulas. There is the Phoenician-Punic development of the Atlantic façade of Europe. Punic Carthage makes signal contributions in the West. Finally, Roman Carthage promotes Latin Christianity.
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