CIVILIZATION
MINOAN
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Question
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It was the largest land empire in the region
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It was based on military conquests
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It was a trade empire based on controling the exchange of goods in the Meditteranean
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the empire was based largely on the spread of their religion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Before the Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians ruled the Mediterranean. The core of Phoenician territory was the city-state of Tyre, in what-is-now Lebanon. Phoenician civilization lasted from approximately 1550 to 300 B.C.E., when the Persians, and later the Greeks, conquered Tyre.
Detailed explanation-2: -The wealth of Phoenician cities such as Tyre, Sidon and Byblos was based on trade. Indeed, it was the search for new goods and new markets that caused the Phoenicians to found colonies. Phoenician civilization first developed in the Levant.
Detailed explanation-3: -But the Phoenicians had been the first Mediterranean trading superpower, and their early dominance led to those empires which followed adopting similar trading practices and even adopting Phoenician names for certain exotic goods from distant lands.