Episode 14 – In the Midst of the Seas

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 1 October 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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“I received the tribute of the kings of the seacoast – namely, the lands of the peoples of Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Mahallatu, Maizu, Kaizu, Amurru and the city of Arvad, which is in the midst of the seas – silver, gold, tin, bronze, a bronze vessel, multicolored linen garments, a large female monkey, a small female monkey, ebony, boxwood, and ivory of sea creatures. They submitted to me.” – Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria Under constant pressure from Assyria, Phoenician merchant fleets aggressively expanded their influence into Sardinia, North Africa and the Tartessian coast of southern Spain. In the central Mediterranean, they bore witness to the cultural resurgence of Archaic Greece, and the growing power of the Etruscan kingdoms of Italy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0	Episode 14, in the midst of the seas.
1:07.0	For thousands of years, the Phoenician Port cities of Biblos, Seiden, and Tyre had commanded the best natural harbours of the eastern Mediterranean,
1:20.0	and had used that advantage to generate the wealth, power, and prestige that secured their lands from foreign invasion and conquest.
1:29.0	Civilizations had come and gone, ruling dynasties faded into obscurity but through it all the
1:34.9	phonetian rule remained unchanged.
1:37.3	Ply the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean and retrieve the resources and
1:42.2	goods most valued by the great powers of the near east.
1:46.0	The Phoenician Territory of the Levant, a narrow strip of coastline hemmed in by mountain ranges to the west and the Mediterranean to the east.
1:56.4	Was probably considered prime beachfront property by every landlocked empire that arose
2:01.8	in the region. And Phoenician history would probably
2:05.0	have been extremely brief if it were left as a matter for kings and armies to decide.
2:11.3	Fortunately for the Phoenicians, empires tended to crave crucial resources and exotic
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