The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient WorldMorrow, 1975 - 288 pages Examines the history, people, culture, civilization, and achievements of the Phoenicians, whose supremacy in shipbuilding and navigation enabled them to be masters of the ancient world for three hundred years. |
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... race , the peoples of Asia Minor . It was a fairly arbitrary ruling , which has no logical foundation , as the following point illustrates : Canaan and Sidon , two symbolical figures connected with Phoenicia , were held to be ...
... race , the peoples of Asia Minor . It was a fairly arbitrary ruling , which has no logical foundation , as the following point illustrates : Canaan and Sidon , two symbolical figures connected with Phoenicia , were held to be ...
Page 32
... races . Now the two together formed a new race , and historians today are still uncertain whether these were the Phoe- nicians , whether their history began some time between 2,300 and 2,100 with the burning of a town and a temple ...
... races . Now the two together formed a new race , and historians today are still uncertain whether these were the Phoe- nicians , whether their history began some time between 2,300 and 2,100 with the burning of a town and a temple ...
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... race , which had always been convinced that economic prosperity was the surest sign of godly grace ? Our ... races , especially if they are as gifted as the Carthaginians , do not vanish finally and irrevocably from history , when they ...
... race , which had always been convinced that economic prosperity was the surest sign of godly grace ? Our ... races , especially if they are as gifted as the Carthaginians , do not vanish finally and irrevocably from history , when they ...
Contents
The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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