The Phoenicians settled on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the thin, fertile strip located between the sea and the mountains Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon. The smallness of its territory, the presence of powerful neighbors, and there are lots of cedar wood (good for shipbuilding), in the forested mountains appear to have been additional factors that guided the Phoenician civilization to the sea. visited the northern coasts of Africa and throughout southern Europe, traded in Italy, entered the Euxine (Black Sea) and went out to the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), playing the Atlantic coast of Africa and reaching the islands of Tin (England). In Brazil there is evidence of the passage of Phoenicians and everything indicates that they concentrated their attention on the northeast. Mearim Going up the river, Maranhão State, at the confluence of the rivers and Pindaré Grajaú pensive find the lake which was once called Maracu. In this lake, on both sides, there are yards of petrified wood, thick with brass nails and bolts. The researcher Maranhão Raimundo Lopes excavated there in the late 1920s, and tools typically found Phoenicians. Professor Schwennhagen Austrian Ludwig believes that the Phoenicians used Brazil as a base for at least eight hundred years, leaving here, besides the material evidence, an important linguistic influence among the natives. Then there is the famous inscription of the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro, very well known, who says: "Here Badezir king of Tyre, Jetbaal firstborn." Carthage, the largest colony of Phoenicia, prospered until inherit the former colonial trade by sea. It is Herodotus who tells us that "the Senate of Carthage issued a decree forbidding under penalty of death if they continued making trips to this side of the Atlantic" (Americas) "since the coming of men and continuous resource was depopulating the capital. "
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