Pheonicians=sailers and traders, not necessarily good warriors.
Pretty much seen through their continued defeats at the hands of the assyrians...persians....macedonians....later on romans.... >.>
Re: Phoenicians ?
Pheonicians=sailers and traders, not necessarily good warriors.
Pretty much seen through their continued defeats at the hands of the assyrians...persians....macedonians....later on romans.... >.>
Re: Phoenicians ?
They used to be pretty big and tough back in the day, tho'. Bronze Age until the Assyrians at least, and the Tyreans gave Alex a serious fight.Originally Posted by DaCrAzYmOfO
Just not big enough to survive the transition into true superpower era, as heralded by the Persians, as an independent polity in the Levant.
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