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THE PHŒNICIANS
THE PHŒNICIANS WHO GAVE US OUR ALPHABET

THE PHŒNICIAN TRADER
The Phœnicians, who were the neighbours of the Jews, were a Semitic tribe which at a very early age had settled along the shores of the Mediterranean. They had built themselves two well-fortified towns, Tyre and Sidon, and within a short time they had gained a monopoly of the trade of the western seas. Their ships went regularly to Greece and Italy and
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