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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Page 89
... thousand measures , about seven thousand tons , of wheat and twenty thousand measures of olive oil , or about seven thousand hectolitres , for every year the building continued - a vast amount which must have been very welcome in the ...
... thousand measures , about seven thousand tons , of wheat and twenty thousand measures of olive oil , or about seven thousand hectolitres , for every year the building continued - a vast amount which must have been very welcome in the ...
Page 194
... thousand strong . But as the Hellenes were never very accurate when it was a case of assessing the numbers of their opponents , one can take this as a gross exag- geration . Even thirty thousand men would have been a gigantic army for ...
... thousand strong . But as the Hellenes were never very accurate when it was a case of assessing the numbers of their opponents , one can take this as a gross exag- geration . Even thirty thousand men would have been a gigantic army for ...
Page 233
... thousand foot soldiers , a thousand cavalrymen and two thousand war chariots to meet the invading army , which was fourteen thousand strong at most . No one with any sense would have laid any money on a vic- torious outcome for the ...
... thousand foot soldiers , a thousand cavalrymen and two thousand war chariots to meet the invading army , which was fourteen thousand strong at most . No one with any sense would have laid any money on a vic- torious outcome for the ...
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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