CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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Which civilization is known for shipbuilding, trading purple dye, and creating colonies all around the Mediterranean Sea?
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Hebrews
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Persians
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Phoenicians
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Nubians
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Along with their famous purple dyes, Phoenician sailors traded textiles, wood, glass, metals, incense, papyrus, and carved ivory.
Detailed explanation-2: -The people known to history as the Phoenicians occupied a narrow tract of land along the coast of modern Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel. They are famed for their commercial and maritime prowess and are recognised as having established harbours, trading posts and settlements throughout the Mediterranean basin.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Phoenician alphabet, for example, is thought to have influenced the early adoption and creation of the alphabet of the Greeks, as well as the alphabet of the Carthaginians known as the Punic script.
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