Two rivers run through the city, providing easy access to the sea for the seafaring Phoenician traders. The ancient Phoenician city of Amrit lies on the Mediterranean Sea in what is today, Syria. Their settlements were politically independent city-states, similar to the Greeks, and their alphabet became the ancestor to most present-day European alphabets. They also invented the 'bireme,' a multi-manned powered boat to easily traverse throughout the Mediterranean.

The Phoenicians had a monopoly of the color purple made from a divertive of the Murex snail, selling highly prized purple fabrics along the trade routes. They were known throughout the Mediterranean as the 'Purple People' which referred to the color of the clothes they wore. Eventually, some of the settlements even extended along the coast of North Africa. The Phoenicians were an ancient civilization living on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now Lebanon. OL2865753W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.51 Pages 326 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0708815588 Urn:lcp:phoenicianspur00herm:epub:c78411c2-7db0-49c8-b969-c8e7240a174c Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier phoenicianspur00herm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6sx78h9x Isbn 0688029086 Lccn 75010554 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL5190303M Openlibrary_edition

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:56:28 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA141720 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier

Download phoenician purple