Phoenicians

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  • Period: 1500 BCE to 334 BCE

    Phoenician

  • 300

    The after math

    Phoenicia is brought into the new Hellenistic empire, changing hands frequently between contending successors of Alexander
  • 323

    King Darius the third

    He was the last ruler of the Phoenicians empire when Alexander the great conquered it in 330
  • 330

    The Ending

    Alexander the Great defeated King Darius III and the Persian army. This was due to the lack of war effort from the empire
  • 464

    Artaxerxes I, Longimanus

    a son of Xerxes I and Amestris, whose name Flavius Josephu,Artaxerxes I was the sixth King of Kings of the Phoenian Empire,
  • 528

    Liberation form Babylonia

    The Phoenician cities, liberated from Babylonian rule, willingly accept inclusion in the Persian
    Empire
  • 529

    Cambyses the second

    Cambyses the second son of Cyrus the Great, ruled the Phoeasion Empire from 529 until his death in 522 BC. Cambyses' grandfather was Cambyses I, king of Anshan.
  • 559

    Cyrus the great

    Cyrus the great was the ruler of this empire for 29 years. He conquered Babylon and freed the Jews from their exile
  • 700

    Alphabet is introduced to vowels and

    The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega The first grammatically correct alphabet
  • 814

    date of the founding of Carthage

    traditional date of the founding of Carthage supposedly by the mythical queen Dido, but in practice by Phoenicians. This was the center of the Phoniness empire empire
  • 970

    Trading with Jerusalem and Solomon

    Hiram, the Phoenician king of Tyre, is an enthusiastic trading partner of King David in Jerusalem, and later of Solomon
  • 1100

    The War Galley

    The Phoenicians develop the war galley, with a sharp battering ram in the bow used in war and gave a great advatage
  • 1100

    The pole star is found

    Phoenician sailors use the pole star for navigational purposes witch gave them a more exact way to trade, travel and explore
  • 1345

    The Amarna tablets

    The Amarna tablets contain extensive correspondence between the Akhenaten government in Egypt and subject princes in Phoenicia
  • 1499

    The start of The Phoenicians Empire

    At this time all major things for the empire started alphabet gov.and trade