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Instead of engaging in military conquest, the Phoenicians spread their influence by trade. They also disseminated their alphabet, which became the basis for Greek and, therefore, Latin scripts. It can ...

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Many historians and linguists say the origins of the name España are Phoenician, claiming that around the fifth century BC the Middle Eastern civilization referred to the Iberian Peninsula as ...

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Modern archaeology has revealed that the origin of the Greek alphabet does lie with the Phoenician script. Now, what does this have to do with the Exodus from Egypt potentially appearing in Greek ...

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