History of the Phoenicians: The Maritime Superpowers of the Mediterranean

The Phoenicians were the maritime superpowers of the Mediterranean. Their culture flourished and was at its most powerful between 1500 and 332 BCE when Alexander the Great entered the region and decimated the cities and their populations, bringing to an end the maritime superpower. The Phoenicians were a number of independent city-states that shared the same culture in the modern-day regions of Syria, Lebanon, and Northern Israel. The Phoenician alphabet was the first alphabet and is the basis for many western alphabets today.
The Phoenicians are probably best known for their production of purple dye which was accomplished by its extraction from the murex shellfish, a sea creature that pretty much became extinct in the region due to the popularity of the colour. The production of the dye first began in Tyre during the Bronze Age, which is why it is known as Tyrian purple. Deposits of murex shells have been found on the outskirts of Sidon and Tyre, as well as at Phoenician colonies across the Mediterranean, including Carthage. Carthage began as a small hill community on the North African Coast which is now modern day Tunis and it's legendary founding of the city is dated to 814 BCE by the Phoenician Queen Elissa, better known as Queen Dido.
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0:00​ Introduction
0:55 Who Were the Phoenicians?
2:16 Phoenician Trade and Colonization
4:44 Phoenician Purple Dye
6:18 The History of Carthage and Queen Dido
8:07 Phoenician Art
10:09 Phoenician Religion
14:24 Outro
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[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Have you heard of Baalbek? How do you think they moved the monoliths? Let us know what you think!

[@FortyBlack]

The story of Calibos and Perseus , just covered up and forgetting truth about these gods

[@lllRAC]

The monoliths were created more than 200 thousands years ago by an advanced civilization not by a 2500 years old civilization

[@marysuzyperla6740]

It was the aliens. Don't believe me? Ask Giorgio Tsoukalos.☺

[@justamurse5646]

I’m not sure if you did this before or after my request for Phoenician history, but thanks either way :) 🇱🇧 🇱🇧

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed it!

[@petermhart]

Enjoyable and informative - thanks.

[@splinterdevilblood6366]

I have no idea how your videos popped up on my KZbin but I’ve subscribed and getting future notifications. I’m pretty sure I’m going to binge your channel videos. Cheers 🍻

[@privatename5169]

Phoenicians my Land ancestors 🥰

[@alexhage8092]

Alexander the Great loved Byblos but was angry at Tyre for rebelling but the Macedonians and Greeks always loved us and we have a deeper history all the way back to Cadmus, same with the romans.

[@historydocumentary]

Great presentation

[@shrikantapatra5203]

I really liked the video. I would suggest you to do one video on the common indo-european mythology. It would be really interesting 😄

[@craigminchin593]

Excellent work as always! I always love the details that you provide in these videos. Both Carthage and Tyre are two cities that I would've loved to have seen prior to their destruction.

[@alexhage8092]

Tyre is still very beautiful

[@Tekmirion]

Good as always Kelly!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Yay, thank you!

[@loydevan1311]

What does the cuneiform symbol mean in english in your titles logo?

[@alexhage8092]

The famous Tyrian purple is beautiful but don't forget about the Royal Blue (hyacinth purple) was just as beautiful

[@ryanbaker614]

A video on the Canaanites or Ugarit would be really cool.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Noted. 🙂

[@Lucaslfm1]

I'm sorry. My English is not very good. It's said the phoenician expansion is between 11th and 6th century BCE. But they were most powerful between 1500 and 332 BCE ? I'm confused.

[@manuscriptsdontburn]

My favourite ancient folk :)

[@blestelaudacieux8252]

الفنيقيبن العرب أول حضارة في شمال افريقيا وجنوب اروبا، وهم للابجدية والحضارية والعمران والكتابة والارقام وسكان الاصليين لي المغرب العربي الكبير وحتى جنوب اروبا. انهم اسلافنا القدماء العرب لدي قال هرودوت انهم من الجزيرة العربية ويتكلمون العربية واسامهم عربية وهم يقول اننا عرب..

[@lindayo49]

ليسوا عرب وليس عندك ابسط دليل

[@blestelaudacieux8252]

6:35 ​@@lindayo49 أكبر دليل دكرهم هرودوت من الجزيرة العربية، دكرهم أبن خلدون في كتاب العبر المقدمة بني كنعان وعرب و هم يقول اننا عرب ويتكلمون العربية و يوجد كتب قديمه وغربية يقول فيها لما الاسلام دخل لي شمال افريقيا لن يحتاج طرجمة لي انا الفنيقية الكنعانية بي داتها عربية هل كل هدا لن يكفيك ان يكون عرب

[@lindayo49]

@@blestelaudacieux8252 هردوت اصلا معروف انه الكذب ثانيا الدليل لدي هو ابحاث جينية اقرا عنها

[@alexhage8092]

Qart hadashat is another Phoenician city in south Spain but Carthage is the main western settlement.. Typical westerners historical error. Fun facts : Phoenicians brought wine to the Gauls and the Gauls taught the Phoenicians how to refine gold.

[@davidbarber3821]

Wait ... so Adonis of the Greeks was originally a Phonecian deity adopted wholesale

[@privatename5169]

Yep

[@mkhbh3132]

Carthage started as a Phoenician colony but it grew in importance fast making a distinctive culture and civilization independent from the small city of tyre. it deserves a series of videos honestly not just a small segment!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We're always adding new videos, so stay tuned.

[@generalofwar6]

Nice try....but you can't change history Carthage was under the phoenician authority

[@mkhbh3132]

@@generalofwar6 you cannot build a nation out of migration. it may started as so but later on it became as native as it could be. you should think about it in the term of the year 1000 BC, meaning the founder of the empire wont spend their summer vacation in Tyre :) , there was no border so people come and go as they are pleased. so after 100s of years a mixture of race is created that is neither ! Tyre in the meanwhile was destroyed and occupied

[@davidbarber3821]

Is Adonis cognate to Adonai?

[@furn6341]

Yes

[@davidbarber3821]

@@furn6341 Explain

[@siegfriedlechler7412]

The Sakar Phoenicians of Solomon. Herodotus, described the Phoenicians as coming from the Gulf. Herodotus visited Tire in his time and was told that the city was 1300 years old, in 2750 BC. was built. The Phoenicians, an originally red-skinned people of the Sidonian Canaanites, would be displaced by the Sea Peoples until they were dominant in Tire under the name Sakar. King Solomon of Israel acknowledged the Phoenicians as a brotherly people of Israel. The only peoples that could be considered as brother people of Israel were 1. the descendants of Hagar, the Ishmealtic Arabs, or 2., Arameans, the people of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, or 3. the descendants of Kethura, Abraham's second wife. Regarding 1. Hagar was an Egyptian and her descendants are referred to as Arabs by Solomon in AT., 2 Chronicles 9:14. To 2. The Arameans are known as the ancestors of the Syrians and are mentioned in the OT. always referred to as such. Syrein was already under the administration of Israel during the lifetime of David the father of Solomon, they were a separate people from the Phoenocians, To 3 . So only the descendants of the kethura can be considered brotherly people of the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians also had the name Sakar, which refers to the sun god Sagg with the title Kad. In fact, they also had the name Kaddad. The Phoenicians were Aryan sun worshipers, they called themselves Cheti and Kad. This sounds like Kathura the wife of Abraham. The Phoenicians also had the name Fanku or Phoinix and Punic. They were Aryans and were referred to in the Indian Chronicles as Kuru-Panchalas, which is synonymous with Aryan Phoenicians.🤠

[@hanikaram3351]

no such thing as an Arab race , arab word came from the verb al ta'arib which means to conjugate like if you get a deck of cards and mixed two of hearts with ace of spades , Arab refers to different groups of mixed people forming a community each group is composed of a percentage of mixed races each group also has a different percentage of mixes than the other

[@hanikaram3351]

we are continuing from the Age that came before long before , nobody looks at the Eastern part of the planet and compares it to the western part one especially the Europe and what is between Ukraine and estern part of western Europe and between earliest middle-eastern civilization and norther part of planet get it ? two long ages came before this one way way before this one

[@THomAs.H.P.76]

Herodotus says that Phoenicians came from the Red sea, so the area of Syria Sidon and Tyre was not their homeland.

[@AB-et6nj]

Herodotus is not the only authority on this, and his Histories isn't entirely accurate anyway so you can't just accept whatever he says ...

[@Yeshua___SonofGod]

@@AB-et6nj i agree . Also the beautiful young Lady does a awesome Job putting together there videos!

[@AB-et6nj]

@@Yeshua___SonofGod yeah she's a good presenter

[@THomAs.H.P.76]

@@AB-et6nj I know they are not accurate, he does his best by the knowledge of his time though, so I believe he is right that Phoenicians came from the Arabic sea.

[@issacatastrophe8375]

Not true

[@FortyBlack]

So remember the story of Calibos and Perseus and Andromeda lol 😂😂😂 so people be covering up to much real shit and made their own culture out of something already established before you

[@alexhage8092]

🇱🇧 💜 Pray for our beautiful country, centuries of politics are tiring us (maybe pun intended) especially nowadays. btw there is no modern israel, stop the genocide and illegal colonial expansion, since this is a history channel we clearly know those invaders have nothing to do with the ancient hebrews, biologically (genetics and anthropology) historically, religiously and territorially. They are one of the big factors for the stress of our modern Phoenicia. Even to be generous thats historically not the size of Israel from the Old testament and if they have the right to have that land after 2500years where is our Phoenicia where are our Phoenician cities in Sicily and Spain that I want to vacation too and have a "right to return".. See how delusional their logic is and thats just the tip of the iceberg with them but GOD the Messiah JESUS is on our side like He preached in Tyre and Sidon 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@justamurse5646]

People forget we (Lebanese, Palestinian, middle eastern Christians) are victimized by Israel’s occupation, ethnocentric state, and apartheid. In the west all they know is Israel; but forget that the Christian’s they pretend to care about are victims alongside our Muslim and Arab brothers in Lubnan and abroad. Idk if Jesus is on any particular ethnicities side, but he was always in the side of the oppressed. This we know.

[@brahimmustapha4601]

Ce sont des arabes et parlaient arabe

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Phoenicians weren't Arabs, although they shared a similar language.

[@aag3752]

​@@WorldHistoryEncyclopediaThe languages aren't similar, nor were the people. The Phoenicians are my ancestors (I'm Lebanese). The genetic continuity in the region has been demonstrated by leading geneticists like Zalloua, Haber and Lazaridis.

[@yeshiahwisdom3142]

They were not phoneticians..

[@privatename5169]

Where weren't Phoenicians ? ;) hehe

[@manuel5114]

Yeah I guess most Phoenicians didn't know much about Phonetics

[@DrINSIGHT-di1fi]

Pheonicia = Lebanon + ouest Syria + Palestine. (Philistine) ( There is nothing whose name israel 11:42

[@omarmhenni8540]

"Northen Israel" ??? there was no israel The phonecians still on that land they are known as Palestinians. Jews came for periode and then left it is promised land meaning they promised to have it not they had it. The Torah and bible themselves said so, Abraham was in Iraq not in Palestine

[@hanikaram3351]

who told you there was no Israel when Phoenician history has deep ties with Jews and Hebrews , all of you in here with your fanatical bias comment lacking historical research for facts , all the Christians of the middle-east got brainwashed to hate anything that was hated by and since the Islamic expansion

[@pax378]

The Greeks defined the borders of Phonecia as the entire levant from Syria to north all the way south to Egypt, So if Israel was a historical nation, it would have to be one and the same as Phonecia..

[@Adsper2000]

They were Canaanites, not Palestinians.