CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Question
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The Phoenicians eventually became known as ____ .
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Greeks
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Romans
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Carthaginians
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Egyptians
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Carthage, whose Phoenician name was Qart Hadasht (new city), was one of those new settlements. It sat astride trade routes going east to west, across the Mediterranean, and north to south, between Europe and Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Carthaginians were courageous seafarers. They traveled the entire coastline between Egypt and Spain, and even ventured out into the stormy Atlantic Ocean to the edge of the known world at the time. From the third century B.C. the Carthaginians were the uncontested rulers of the seas.
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