Western Civilization I / Unit 2 WC1 0118 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Phoenicians: Tyre, Carthage, and the Alphabet
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The idea
The Phoenicians were independent cities of present-day Lebanon, Tyre chief among them, trading and colonizing the Mediterranean. Carthage, their greatest colony, later fought Rome. By thirteen hundred B.C.E. they wrote with an alphabet of sound signs.
In practice
A small learnable script; Greeks and Romans adopted it.
Where people slip
The sample question asks which cities were Phoenician: Tyre and Carthage. Tyre is witnessed.
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