CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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First the Assyrians, then the Babylonians, the Persians, and the Romans.
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First the Assyrians, then the Egyptians, the Persians, and the Romans.
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First the Romans, then the Babylonians, the Israelite, and the Romans.
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Only the Assyrians
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phoenicia was one of the first areas to be conquered by Alexander the Great during his military campaigns across western Asia. Alexander’s main target in the Persian Levant was Tyre, now the region’s largest and most important city.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their major cities were Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and Arwad. All were fiercely independent, rival cities and, unlike the neighboring inland states, the Phoenicians represented a confederation of maritime traders rather than a defined country.
Detailed explanation-3: -approached, the Phoenicians’ two most important cities, Sidon and Tyre, were destroyed by the Persians and Alexander the Great. Many Phoenicians left the Mediterranean coast for their trading colonies, and Phoenicia people and ideas were soon assimilated into other cultures.
Detailed explanation-4: -After toppling the Babylonian Empire, the Assyrians conquered the Israelites, the Phoenicians, and even parts of the mighty Egyptian Empire. Tiglath-pileser I was an early Assyrian king who began his reign in about 1100 B.C.E.