Phoenicians

Phoenicians were the people who lived in the lands called Phoenicia. These people are famous for being great sailors and traders, and inventing the alphabet. Even though they are very important, we know very little about them. Knowledge about Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese was a lot more than the Phoenicians. We got more information about Phoenicians from other colonies than from the Phoenicians themselves. They were known to a lot of people back in the …

…BC, Carthage was almost gone. Now only a few Phoenicians were left. They had no chance of survival. The Romans were going to destroy them all. The Romans surrounded them from all sides, and the Phoenicians were squeezed into a smaller and smaller area. Finally they all went to a large temple on top of a hill. There they set the temple on fire and burned themselves. This is the end of the Phoenicians (Edey 165).