The Emergence of Phoenicia

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean that runs from Syria to Egypt. One small part of that coastline, mostly in what's now Lebanon, became a launching pad for some of the most ambitious and wide-ranging commercial ventures in history. The Phoenicians, natives of this area, were the primary builders of the ancient Mediterranean.

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0:18.2	The man's feet dragged as he passed through the city's narrow streets.
0:22.2	He was tired, his wool and tunic stained with sweat and grime, his gray hair and beard
0:26.4	peppered with tiny shavings of wood.
0:29.0	His hands ached after hours of gripping his tools and spikes of pain stabbed into his lower
0:33.1	back from hours spent bent over.
0:35.9	His thumb, which he had accidentally struck with wooden mallet earlier in the day, throbbed
0:39.8	with every step.
0:41.5	The spell of the sea hung in the air for the tang of salt carried inland from the docks
0:45.1	by evening gusts of warm Mediterranean wind.
0:48.7	He caught the occasional whiff of something rancid as well.
0:51.6	Spoiling fish, he thought, from the fish mongers down by the water.
0:56.0	The walk was a short one, but it felt like it took forever.
0:59.1	The weight of the day's labor is hanging heavily on his wiry, slightly stooped for.
1:04.3	Home lay just ahead on the other side of a potter's workshop.
1:07.9	Smoke rose from the kilns.
1:10.1	The man cringed when he heard pottery breaking, clay shirts tinkling on flagstones, followed
1:15.5	by a series of purses so vile that he knew he couldn't repeat them to his wife when
1:19.2	he reached his house.
1:20.5	Still, he had to give the potter credit for creativity.
1:23.3	It would never have occurred to him to think that God's bail and ushtart would do that
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