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Phoenicians

In the ancient area corresponding to modern Lebanon and Syria, a civilization known as Ugaritic had developed before the appearance of the Hebrews in Palestine. Its main urban center, named after the city of Ugarit, was located in what is now Ras Shamra on the Mediterranean Sea.

The Phoenicians created perhaps the most consequential thalassocracy in history, not only because of the Phoenician accomplishment of creating a network of maritime trade throughout the Mediterranean region, but also by inspiring the Greek and Roman empires that followed. Phoenicia arose in present-day Lebanon, in the ancient coastal cities of

The house itself has still not been completely excavated, but is already known to have covered at least one thousand square meters, so Yabninu must have been a reasonably successful merchant. The sixty or more tablets that were discovered within the ruins of this house are thought to have originally been kept on the second floor, and include

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The planting of olive trees and the use of olive oil spread to central Italy from the Greek colonies in Italy – probably from Sicily – between the eighteenth and fifth centuries BCE