A Brief History of the Phoenicians (1500 - 300 BC)

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The Phoenicians remain one of the most enigmatic ancient civilizations, with historians and scholars prone to speculation and educated guesses. The Phoenicians were great writers, yet they left almost no documents. They may have been excellent sailors and naval commanders, yet they built no territorial empire. They were stellar artists, yet their work contains few original elements. They may have been clever builders, yet their monuments crumbled. And the Phoenicians were a single civilization, yet they were split into city-states.

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[Kapnohuxi_folium]

As a lebanese maronite, I think I can speak on behalf of my fellow phoenicians when I say that our history shaped the modern world in ways arguable just as importantly as the Greeks or Romans

[rollotollo]

You didn't mention their best invention, the alphabet!

[armidaloya]

Purple and Tiffany blue are their colors. They communicate through those colors.

[westcoastGRMMT]

Should mention their worship of Moloch, how they praised that god, and how that god still has influence in todays culture.

[freepagan]

Really irresponsible that you didn't mention their alphabet, which they then gave to the Greeks and the rest of Europe.

[jessipoof]

This is an absolutley amazing video, it keeps it all short and sweet, and gets all of the important stuff to stick into my brain. This really helped me with my studying, thankyou.

[ExioElioCabreja]

I am in a Marine Biology Course and the modules really are great i searched Pheonicians western region first sailors and i got this video but the also where the first in the western to sail the mediterranean sea which is located under Greece according to reading the map holding it in front of out face while standing. Magellan tried getting sounds from under the central pacific floor, i believe that curiosity is marvelous technology and everything of education and scholar starts with curiosity...thanks for the film.

[gibsoncash]

You forgot to mention there advancement in writing

[kenndurrence]

I found out that my DNA via my mother was Phoenician at one point. I am stoked to learn this stuff!

[karenreaves]

We know nothing about our history. Real history is hidden.

[TheJayblaze]

The Africans was conquered by the Phoenicians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Asatics etc.

These conquers arrived on boats 🚢 entering through the 🌊 seacoast and most of them is occupying that same seacoast still to this day.

Chancler Williams brought me here.

[gabrielalexanderkhoury]

ALPHABET Invention. Afrrican circumnavigation circa 600 bc. Purple dye in addition to shipbuilding. Also established Carthage. Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants and defeated the Roman army in the renowend battle of Cannae with military tactics still studied in military academies today. Dido Queen of Carthage in Henry Purcell's Opera Dido and Anneas.

[naoki]

this helped me with my project thank you

[darrinmagnus]

Long live the Lebanese, the direct descendants of our Phoenico-Canaanite forbears in our little Levantine homeland of Lebanon (Kan.-Phoen. Pūt (𐤐𐤕), Gr. Phoiníkē (Φοινίκη)), the founders of Carthage who peopled her, from whom stemmed the illustrious general Hannibal Barca who all but conquered Republican Rome during the Second Punic War until the lion of Lebanon fell prey to the maw of the shewolf of the Tibur in the Maghreb.

[kimberlysizemoremanor]

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[robertvidal]

Were they really just all about the Mediterranean? The Bible talked of Phoenicians helping the Hebrews build ships on the Red Sea.

[Quacktum]

🎵Now the Pheonicians can get down to business!🎵

[HasanAli-sifm]

So proud of being Syrian Phoenicians ♥️

[bulend]

Greeks copied everything of Canaanites (Phoenicians): alphabet, democracy, religion, myths, ship technology, mathematics, philosophy, city life, etc..

[samuelf]

I thought they were know for sacrificing children