Phoenicia: Difference between revisions

===Trade===

{{See also|Phoenicians and wine}}

 

The Phoenicians served as intermediaries between the disparate civilizations that spanned the Mediterranean and Near East, facilitating the exchange of goods and knowledge, culture, and religious traditions. Their expansive and enduring trade network is credited with laying the foundations of an economically and culturally cohesive Mediterranean, which would be continued by the Greeks and especially the Romans.<ref name="Jerry H. Bentley 1999" />

 

From elsewhere, they obtained other materials, perhaps the most crucial being [[silver]], mostly from [[Sardinia]] and the [[Iberian Peninsula]]. Tin for making [[bronze]] "may have been acquired from [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] by way of the Atlantic coast of southern Spain; alternatively, it may have come from northern Europe ([[Cornwall]] or [[Brittany]]) via the [[Rhone valley]] and coastal [[Marseille|Massalia]]." {{sfnp|Markoe|2000|p=103}} [[Strabo]] states that there was a highly lucrative Phoenician trade with Britain for tin via the [[Cassiterides]], whose location is unknown but may have been off the northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hawkes|first=Christopher|title=Britain and Julius Caesar|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy|issue=63|year=1977|pages=124–192}}</ref>

 

===Industry===