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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... ships or as armed merchantmen in pirate - infested waters . Jesus is Lord . None of these ships , even the largest of them , can have been bigger than a nutshell by our standards . They were also smaller than the Adoration of the Two ...
... ships or as armed merchantmen in pirate - infested waters . Jesus is Lord . None of these ships , even the largest of them , can have been bigger than a nutshell by our standards . They were also smaller than the Adoration of the Two ...
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... ship as their model , they ( reputedly ) built in the shortest possible time no less than a hundred quinque- remes , giant vessels , with twenty - five to thirty oars on each side , each rowed by five men . At that date ships of this ...
... ship as their model , they ( reputedly ) built in the shortest possible time no less than a hundred quinque- remes , giant vessels , with twenty - five to thirty oars on each side , each rowed by five men . At that date ships of this ...
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... ships out of action by ramming them , smashing their oars and perhaps entering them . Now , however , the methods of infantry warfare were introduced at sea , and as footsoldiers the Romans were far superior to the Carthaginians . This ...
... ships out of action by ramming them , smashing their oars and perhaps entering them . Now , however , the methods of infantry warfare were introduced at sea , and as footsoldiers the Romans were far superior to the Carthaginians . This ...
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The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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