CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Question
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Who were the Lydians?
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A group northwest of Phoenicia that helped develop money.
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A group southwest of Phoenicia that helped develop money.
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A group northwest of Phoenicia that relied solely on bartering.
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Lydians were said to be the originators of gold and silver coins. During their brief hegemony over Asia Minor from the middle of the 7th to the middle of the 6th century bc, the Lydians profoundly influenced the Ionian Greeks to their west.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Lydians however are considered as the real inventors of coinage, who used for the first minting a precious metal, the electrum. This was an alloy of gold and silver, found in the sand of the river Pactolus, which rose in the mountain Tmolus and flowed through the capital Sardis, in Lydia.
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