The amazing similarities between the Ancient kingdom and Ancient Carthage (Phoenicians)
Ancient Carthage
Ancient Carthage
- The Myth of Carthage's founding, concludes that Carthage was created by the legendary Phoenician queen known as "Dido."
- Before creating Carthage, she had fled from tyranny and autocracy.
- She founded Carthage, and under her wisdom and leadership, it prospered and became extremely wealthy.
- She fell in love with a Trojan hero.
- Carthage was destroyed by Rome, their writings were also purposefully destroyed, and many of it's inhabitants were sold into slavery.
But, Here Is the most exciting part, The Phoenicians who founded Ancient Carthage!
The similarities between The Ancient Kingdom and The Phoenicians (Founders of Ancient Carthage)
The similarities between The Ancient Kingdom and The Phoenicians (Founders of Ancient Carthage)
- The Phoenicians were some of the most mysterious and intriguing entities to ever exist; they were a civilization of traveling seafarers.
- To call them "Advanced" Is no exaggeration, they were some of the most successful traders and innovators in history, especially in the areas of writing and language! But most notably in our case, they were expert ship builders, and craftsmen!
- they were known as "the first true seafarers in Europe" and "Merchants of the people of many coast lines" but this is an understatement. they were unparalleled for centuries.
- More importantly, they traveled to the ends of the earth, created a massive web of trading centers, and were middle men between many different civilizations. They helped facilitate the sharing of cultures and ideas!
- The Phoenicians were often credited with the first true alphabet, one which the English language is written in today, in fact, they initially used Egyptian hieroglyphics and then came up with their own alphabet which gradually replaced the former.
- However, even though they were innovators in the fields of writing and language, we know very little about them, due to their writings being lost and purposefully destroyed.
- Most of what's written about them, was written by civilizations who hated everything they stood for. However, some of what we do know about them was scattered across their many "trading centers/settlements" due to their travels all over the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, and is recorded on stone tablets!
- for example, the name "Phoenicians" is not even what they called themselves, it was what was the ancient Greeks called them due to their extremely valuable purple dye.
- Before they expanded to the lengths I mentioned, they were based in the levant (Particularly modern-day Lebanon) in what was then known as Canaan (Modern day middle east, more or less.) During the Bronze age.
- They were surrounded by powerful autocratic kingdoms spanning the entirety of Canaan.
- One day "The sea people" appeared, literal Pirates, from all over the world, of many races, and tribes. it's commonly believed that some of these pirates were from these Canaan kingdoms, including the three Phoenician cities which made up "Phoenicia"
- these pirates destroyed and pillaged some of these kingdoms, and were a major factor in the collapse of the bronze age.
- After the collapse, Phoenicians were relatively unharmed, and were able to expand, and create many trading centers/settlements, the most successful and well known of which, is the legendary ancient Carthage!
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