HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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The Mycenaeans
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The Dorians
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The Minoans
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The Phoenicians
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Detailed explanation-1: -Persian Rule. Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Phoenicia in 539 BCE. The Persians divided Phoenicia into four vassal kingdoms: Sidon, Tyre, Arwad, and Byblos.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenicians were famed in antiquity for their ship-building skills, and they were credited with inventing the keel, the battering ram on the bow, and caulking between planks.
Detailed explanation-3: -We know, however, that their influence extended beyond trade. The Phoenician alphabet, for example, is thought to have influenced the early adoption and creation of the alphabet of the Greeks, as well as the alphabet of the Carthaginians known as the Punic script.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Greeks adopted it and by the 8th century B.C.E. had added vowels. Later, the Romans also used a version of this same alphabet that is virtually identical to the one used today in the English-speaking world.