Search results
Apr 28, 2016 · Phoenician ships were represented in the art of their neighbours, and their seamanship is praised above all other by such ancient writers as Homer and Herodotus. If any nation could claim to be the masters of the seas, it was the Phoenicians.
- Mark Cartwright
The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Jun 23, 2020 · Phoenician ships reached Iberia and then looped around to return east with the winds and currents along the coast of the Maghreb. They visited new lands rich in metals, made new friends, and by about 900 BCE they had battled their way through the ‘Pillars of Hercules’—the Rock of Gibraltar and Jebel Musa—and out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Jan 4, 2021 · The Phoenicians were great maritime people, known for their mighty ships and a great experience as sea traders, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea and reaching as far north as Britain, Egypt, and Senegal.
Apr 1, 2016 · Mesopotamia and Egypt were the most notable customers, the former receiving their trunks via caravan up to the Euphrates River while ships carried the wood to the African coast. The trade is recorded in reliefs of Sargon II and an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar.
- Mark Cartwright
They were first to travel from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. They controlled the seas between 1200 BCE and 800 BCE. They built trading colonies in Spain, North Africa and many Mediterranean islands. Their success was due to their advanced ships. They were fast and could move through rough seas.
People also ask
Why were Phoenician ships important?
Why did the Phoenicians trade?
When did Phoenicians come to America?
How did the Phoenicians travel?
Where did Phoenician ships go?
How did Phoenician ships reach Iberia?
Phoenician ships carried technologies and ideas. As a result, Phoenician merchant communities absorbed and adapted foreign ideas. They formed critical connections between places, and drove cultural exchanges that would impact the world for millennia.
