why are Phoenicians once called people without a country?

Question

please

Answer 1

your opinion is wrong

Answer 2

Phoenicians, as they were called by the Greeks, called themselves Canaanites, part of the tribes that were driven out of Israel as promised in the Bible by Yahweh. The Phoenician culture has been around since the Bronze Age(~3000bc) but became a world culture around the Iron Age(~1200bc) centered in Lebanon around the cities of Tyre and Sidon. About this time they became great explorers and ocean travelers and traders and founded many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea including those on Cyprus, in Spain and the famous city-state of Carthage.

Alexander the Great subjugated Tyre and the Romans destroyed Carthage, thus leaving the phoenicians seemingly without a specific home.

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Answer 3

Who says so?
From 1200 to 800 B.C. the Semitic-speaking Phoenicians lived and prospered on the Mediterranean coast north of Palestine. Their chief cities were Tyre and Sidon. They gained fame as sailors and traders. They occupied a string of cities along the Mediterranean coast, in what is today Lebanon and Syria.
Between the period of 1200 B.C. and 900 B.C. there was no major military power in Mesopotamia. Therefore smaller states like Phoenicia and the Hebrew kingdom were able to prosper. These kingdoms especially the Phoenicians started to trade throughout the Mediterranean region.


Phoenicia (foh-NEE-shee-ah) Phoenicia is the Greek name for the country and
people living on the coast of Syria in ancient times at the east end of the
Mediterranean Sea. It is believed that economic opportunity and population
pressures forced them out into the seas. The Phoenicians colonized many areas
along the Mediterranean Sea. Areas where their colonies have been found:
Sardinia Cyprus, and Carthage-most important and lasting colony By far they
were superior to all peoples of that time in seamanship. Legend has it that an
Egyptian pharaoh hired a band of Phoenicians to map and circumnavigate the
coast of Africa. They are best remembered for their contributions in the
establishment to trade with the many peoples living along the Mediterranean
Sea. The Greeks received their alphabet from them as late as the 10th century
B.C. or as early as the 15th. Other antiquities famed to the Phoenicians include
carved ivories to be used in furniture, metalwork, and especially glassware.

THE PHOENICIANS ROUTES OF THE PHOENICIANS The Fertile
Crescent is roughly an arc-shaped area which stretches from the mouth of the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers at the Persian Gulf, west to the Red Sea. About
5,000 years ago it was inhabited by a race know as Semites. The Semites who
lived in the eastern portion of the Fertile Crescent were Sumerians, Assyrians,
and Babylonians. In the western portion lived the Amorites. Those Amorites
who settled in what are today Lebanon, Syria, and Israel were know as
Canaanites. Later, the Greek called them Phoenicians.

PHOENICIANS IN HISTORY There is no doubt the Phoenicians were
among the most interesting people in history. Because they left so few written records of their own achievements, their history has been pieced together from records of all the other nations with which they came in contact, either through trade or through battle. Other information has been gathered from the work of archaeologists whose digging have unearthed tombs of their rulers or what little is left of their cities. http://www.lebanon2000.com/ph.htm

Answer 4

I've never heard this either.
You seem to have your tenses and adverbials of time mixed up too.

Answer 5

because they were a very maritime society