WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Phoenicia, ancient region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean that corresponds to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lebanese share over 90 percent of their genetic ancestry with 3, 700-year-old inhabitants of Saida. The results are in, and Lebanese are definitely the descendants the ancient Canaanites – known to the Greeks as the Phoenicians.

Detailed explanation-3: -Urban settlements in Lebanon date to the early Bronze Age. The inhabitants, called Phoenicians by the Greeks, were indistinguishable from the Canaanites of Palestine.