CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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on the island of Crete, in the Mediterranean.
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between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.
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close to the Persian Gulf.
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on the west coast of the Fertile Crescent.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent near modern-day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. All major Phoenician cities were on the coastline of the Mediterranean.
Detailed explanation-2: -Phoenicia (/fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə/) was an ancient thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon and coastal Syria.
Detailed explanation-3: -They were a great trading people and they were at their peak between about 1200 BC and 800 BC. The Phoenicians lived on a strip of fertile land between the sea and the Lebanon mountains.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. The Phoenicians are primarily remembered as adept sailors and cunning merchants.