CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Question
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Even though historians now believe than Hanno may have been the first to sail around the entire coast of Africa, which explorer is usually given credit for this feat?
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Christopher Columbus
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Marco Polo
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Vasco de Gama
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -According to ancient classical authors, the Phoenicians were a people who occupied the coast of the Levant (eastern Mediterranean). Their major cities were Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and Arwad.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenicians established colonies and trading posts across the Mediterranean; Carthage, a settlement in northwest Africa, became a major civilization in its own right in the seventh century BC.
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