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Western/Latin
and other alphabets come from the Phoenician alphabet?
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Beritus
or Berytus (modern Beirut, Lebanon) had a very important School
of Law in the Roman Empire?
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The
Bible is called thus because it refers to the Phoenician city
of Byblos?
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King
Solomon's great Temple was built in the style of Tyre's Melqart
Temple by Phoenician artisans using the Cedars of Lebanon?
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The
Egyptian Pharoahs employed Phoenician cedar for their wood
needs?
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King
Solomon, in his old age, became a worshipper of the Phoenician goddess
Ashtarte?
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Melchizedek,
the King of Salem (King of Jerusalem) and Priest of the Most High
God (El Elion), who offered bread and wine to Abraham, was Phoenician?
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The
Pentateuch (Moses' first five books, if not more, of the the
Old Testament Bible, the Torah) was/were written down (transliterated)
in Phoenician script?
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Jesus
Christ visited Phoenicia and among the first to believe in him
was a Phoenician woman?
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The
bishops of all Phoenician cities were consecrated as bishops
by the Apostles or their immediate successors?
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Tyre,
Sidon and other Phoenician Christian cities and towns provided rest-stops
and shelters for the Apostles on their way to convert the world?
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St.
Jerome referred to Tyre as the place where St. Paul once knelt;
and called Zarephath, Elijah's town?
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Phoenicians
circumnavigated Africa?
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Phoenicians
were the first to use the Pole Star for navigation?
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Phoenicians
were able traders throughout the Mediterranean?
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Phoenicians
colonized the far corners of the Mediterranean from the Island
of Cyprus in the East to Spain and Gibraltar including the outer Atlantic
coast and North Africa in the West?
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Britain
was the Phoenicians' secret treasure of tin where the name "Britain"
may be coming from Barr (land) of Tannic (Tin)? Hence Britannia did
not come from Prutani, the name applied to the Celts by the Romans,
and some claim that the Celts were Phoenicians.
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The
Phoenicians reached North America BC and Punic inscriptions
in Massachusetts and Iowa confirm this fact?
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In
the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer mentions Phoenicia, Phoenicians
and Phoenician cities.
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The
Phoenician possessed the science or art of dentistry as evident
by the fine braces on a lower jaw of a scull?
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The
Phoenician language is still spoken today in Malta (or Maltese
is a mixture of Phoenician/Punic and other Mediterranean languages)
?
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To
beef up their naval powers, conquerors employed the Phoenicians in
building warship-fleets?
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The
Phoenicians raised elephants on farms?
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The
first parliament ever to convene in the Middle East met in the
Phoenician confederate city of Tripoli?
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Roman
Emperor Septimius Severus (193 - 211 AD) descended from early
Phoenician settlers and spoke with a Phoenician accent?
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Pythagoras
was Phoenician and was initiated into the 'Ancient Mysteries' of the
Phoenicians c. 548 B.C. and studied for about 3 years in the temples
of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos and that his father was a Phoenician merchant
from Tyre?
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Archimedes
c.287 B.C.-212 B.C., Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor,
died during the Roman assault on Syracuse while designing a catapult
and the Carthaginians fought on his side to defend the city.
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Thales
of Miletus (who was half Phoenician), one of the first great scientists,
is said to have forecast the solar eclipse of the year 585 BC.
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Zeno
of Citium was a glowing star in the pre-Socratic age but was ridiculed
in Athens for his Phoenician appearance.
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Popes
Anicetus (155 - 166 AD), John V (685-686 AD), Sergius I (687-701 AD)
and Gregory III (741-752 AD) and Constantius were Phoenicians?
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Aristotle
held up the constitution of Carthage as a model.
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Hasdrubal-Clitomachus
added to Arcesilas a critical interpretation of certitude which makes
him a forerunner of modern thought.
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St.
Augustine was Phoenician. He wrote "...there was a great
deal of virtue and wisdom in the Punic books".
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St.
Jerome believed Punic erotic poetry to be pernicious and described
it as "lewd".
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Many
parts of the Old Testament were plagiarized from Phoenician
literature, poetry, and religion, similar to plagiarizing of the Book
of Job (for example ) from Babylonian tales?
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Phoenician
sacrifice of children to the gods was copied/practiced by many
Semites such as Abraham's attempt to sacrifice his son?
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The
Phoenicians had a rough knowledge about pi (3.1416)
at the time of Hiram and the building of Solomon's Temple?
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St.
Frumentius, Phoenician from Tyre, converted Ethiopia to Christianity?
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Mochus,
a Sidonian, wrote a work on the atomic theory.
