Phoenician trading network (1)

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The new trading network between Mediterranean and Mesopotamia was re-established by Phoenicians in the Early Iron Age. By the second half of the eleventh century BCE the Phoenicians, heirs to the coastal Canaanites, had re-established trading networks between the Greek mainland and the Near East, and coastal disruptions within this network were less severe than was once thought. This brought the Greeks into contact with the alphabetic writing of the Phoenicians which they later adopted, and with the script came scribes with methods of academic training established long ago in Mesopotamia.

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Stephanie Dalley

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