That's the Greek mythology stories of Perseus and Andromeda Calibos etc , that's sad the same Christian book gets it's start there then flip it around 😂😂😂 that's fact sir
Yes Phoenicians were Canaanites. Canaanites were not just one people, there were sub groups. When the Israelites invaded southern canaan (promised land) a lot of the surving canaanites actually settled north into what became phoenicia
Hello! Coming from Mr. Keohan's Social Studies class in good ol' Medfield, Massachusetts! One thing we liked about your video was the variety of images that you used. We also appreciated your calming and relaxing voice! One thing we think you might improve on is the pacing -- some parts felt a little too fast, and we couldn't pick up on all the information that you were putting out there. In conclusion, one question that we have for you is "What made you decide to make a video about the Phoenicians?"
Thank you for your kind words and suggestions. We strive to make learning history fun and educational. The Phoenicians were an amazing civilization to explore. Let us know if you have any topics you’d like us to dive into
The cretans/minoans were the first to discover and use the dye from the murex. The pheonicians definitely spread the market and demand for it. They cornered the process and distribution fairly quickly after the minoans or keftu/caphtori cities were destroyed by the volcanic eruption from Thera. To me the fact that Carthage was utterly destroyed by Rome is one of history's worst tragedies. We don't even know what contributions they made to western culture because their records and writings were destroyed. It's heartbreaking to me.
@@MykaMonae No, that's wrong. "The Phoenician culture originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region of the Levant (Southern Syria, Lebanon and Northern Israel" You can even look at a map of their empire. They are a mediterranean people. Your confusion is you see a part of their Empire touches onto North Africa and you instantly think Africa equals black. You do not realize the mediterraneans coasts also touch NORTH AFRICA. They were a sea faring trading Empire. So yes, they had settlements there. Right next to Sicily as well and some on Sicily. In fact interestingly enough Hannibals family mainly had territory in Spain. ROME also had a settlement in Spain. None of this equals black. You have absolutely no evidence for this. We know the Phoenician settlements, we know where they originated and we even have DNA from a carthiginian citizen that was analyzed. He has olive skin (shocker?) curly dark hair and green eyes. These are just mediterraneans. Stop with this nonsense.
@@goodfty does it really even matter? during those times, there was no racial distinctions. there was only regional distinctions. One thing we know for sure. They are not descendants of our Caucasian friends from Europe. Those people were only once removed from their Neanderthal cousins. So again, while you are quick to deny African ancestry, they are far closer than you would like to think.
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The first to land on American soil AND establish trade with pre-Romanized Britain? That is 2 different ideas. The way it is said is like it's one idea. If you want it to be two different ideas it should be said, "...as well as to establish trade..."
Phoenicians didn't invent the Alphabet, as is widely believed. The first Alphabetic inscriptions come from Egypt and the Sinai in the mid/late Middle Kingdom period, when there was a large population of Syrian-descended pastoral Semites living there originally as welcome guests, then falling into poverty and servitude. They derived this revolutionary new writing system from Egyptian symbols to make a far less complex writing system than those in use up to that point. These are the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. Discovered a little over a century ago, only a handful of words were decipherable, words common to many Semitic languages. Every Semitic language around was used to try and translate the inscriptions more, but nothing seemed to yield real results, and interestingly, Hebrew WASN'T seriously considered because most were under the false impression that Ramses II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus in the 1200s BCE, though this identification yielded absolutely no synchronisms between Bible and Egyptian records. In reality, the Exodus happened about 500 years before Solomon's reign (c.1000 BCE), which would rule out Ramses II as a candidate for the event entirely, and setting the Hebrew's centuries-long sojourn in Egypt 2wards the end of the Middle Kingdom, after which they left Egypt and the Hyksos swooped in and eventually took over. The point is, both the Bible and Egyptian evidence show that a large Hebrew-speaking Semitic population was in Egypt in the c.1700s-1500s BCE, and recently, a few scholars have recognized this and used the ancient Hebrew language to translate the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, and rather quickly, they found positive results. The Bible says the Hebrews entered Canaan after a few decades and began conquering it. Is it any coincidence, then, that at this period, we see the first appearance of the Alphabet in Canaan? An ancient Book recounts the journeys of Semitic pastoralists from Ancient Syria/Mesopotamia into Egypt, at which point, we see several ancient Egyptian words appear in the Hebrew Torah account of the Egyptian Sojourn. The first mention of WRITING in the Bible appears in the Exodus account when these Semites are in the Sinai desert, where the majority of the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions appear at sites like Biblical Dophkah (Serabit El-Khadim, an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine called 'Du-Mofkat', "Mountain of Turquoise"), where the Torah says the Israelites stopped en route to Mt Sinai, near another ancient mine for Copper, where an inscription was found that reads "Unto Hobab (the name of Moses' brother-in-law who was called a 'Qeni/Kenite', meaning 'metal smith') and the Assembly, Mighty is the Furnace." -Sinai Inscription 376. Also, scholars have also determined that among the variant Abjads in the ancient Levant, it is Hebrew that seems to have retained more of a semblance of the Original mother script, so to speak. Yet, despite all this, many cling to the random assertion that Phoenicians invented the Alphabet, despite no ancient record of Phoenicians sojourning in Egypt and being slaves, and no distinctly Phoenician words in the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. 🧐🤔
I wouldn't be surprised that ancient writing may have originated rather in India somewhere. I am not a specialist.. but it is my intuition. When I visited Iraq I noticed some people among the population which reminded me Indians. So I thought that maybe the ancient Sumerians were maybe from India and it is them who started the Mesopotamian culture. Of course this is just my personal impression. In Iraq people don't want to be Indians but still some of them seemed to be quite similar in appearance. A minority among them.
The Egyptians used pictures as a form of writing the Phoenicians saw how long and difficult it was to use pictures as a writing method so they created an alphabet that’s how they invented the alphabet I think you may be misinformed
This question has been Milling about in my brain since probably Junior High and I'm in my forties now why is the phrase city-states why isn't your cities or just States why do we use current modern terms put two together and pretend it's something that was from ancient times did they have a word why do we translate it as meaning city and state plainly it doesn't why don't we just use the word in their language why do we use this stupid term that annoys my senses everytime I hear it
4:49 "provided a new method of manufacture of 'phaeons' to the Egyptians"? Wtf? This guy seems to just be reading the WorldBook Encyclopedia entry for "Phoenician"... He doesn't even know the words he's trying to say... What a hack! 👎😖
Your video is incorrect. The Greeks were worshiping Zeus 500 yrs (3000 B.C.) before the Phoenicians were even established (in 2500 B.C.). Not only that, they were involved in many wars and one of their main founding cities, Carthage, faught with Rome all the time. Before that and becoming merchant's they faught with the Amorites and Hittites, and were involved with some tifts with Egypt, until joining in commerce with them. The Phoenicians were the ones that built commerce and trade, leading to the slave trade and maritime law's. It was through their greed that advanced corruption and the slaughter of empire's that they bought themselves out of into the new ruling one's. They were the definition of what hedge fund billionaires, wealthy corporation leaders are today. They are a main root cause of the division by status and money and keeping the poor, poor in the world that is still done today..
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Good luck...he just turned 40! Lol!
If this channel is like a baby to you, you are very Phoenician... Better start building a tophet, because your baby is doomed.
That's the Greek mythology stories of Perseus and Andromeda Calibos etc , that's sad the same Christian book gets it's start there then flip it around 😂😂😂 that's fact sir
Thank you for the upload, I love your content, its always something new :)
They invented the alphabet? Interesting! It’s always fun to learn where so much basic stuff originated
yeah and if the alphabet wasn't made yet how did people talk?
@@owenm.5056 they probably used other ways of communication, that’s my best guess
Thank you for the upload I love your content!
The Phoenicians are the Canaanites
Yes Phoenicians were Canaanites. Canaanites were not just one people, there were sub groups. When the Israelites invaded southern canaan (promised land) a lot of the surving canaanites actually settled north into what became phoenicia
I love history..thanks
Entrepreneurs of a forgotten time.Thank you for the upload I love history.👍
Hello! Coming from Mr. Keohan's Social Studies class in good ol' Medfield, Massachusetts! One thing we liked about your video was the variety of images that you used. We also appreciated your calming and relaxing voice! One thing we think you might improve on is the pacing -- some parts felt a little too fast, and we couldn't pick up on all the information that you were putting out there. In conclusion, one question that we have for you is "What made you decide to make a video about the Phoenicians?"
Thank you for your kind words and suggestions. We strive to make learning history fun and educational. The Phoenicians were an amazing civilization to explore. Let us know if you have any topics you’d like us to dive into
We phoenician lebanese are ones with a very rich history
Aywaa, I am Palestinian/Lebanese (Originally from Haifa - now in beirut) and proud of our canaanite phoenician history
Technically it stops once the phoenicians got conquered
The cretans/minoans were the first to discover and use the dye from the murex. The pheonicians definitely spread the market and demand for it. They cornered the process and distribution fairly quickly after the minoans or keftu/caphtori cities were destroyed by the volcanic eruption from Thera.
To me the fact that Carthage was utterly destroyed by Rome is one of history's worst tragedies. We don't even know what contributions they made to western culture because their records and writings were destroyed. It's heartbreaking to me.
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This is why I'd get annoyed with people saying Hannibal was black. He was phoenician!! Not black african!!!
But Phoenicians are black African who just migrated up north and settled. So Hannibal was black
@@MykaMonae No, that's wrong. "The Phoenician culture originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region of the Levant (Southern Syria, Lebanon and Northern Israel"
You can even look at a map of their empire. They are a mediterranean people. Your confusion is you see a part of their Empire touches onto North Africa and you instantly think Africa equals black. You do not realize the mediterraneans coasts also touch NORTH AFRICA. They were a sea faring trading Empire. So yes, they had settlements there. Right next to Sicily as well and some on Sicily. In fact interestingly enough Hannibals family mainly had territory in Spain. ROME also had a settlement in Spain. None of this equals black.
You have absolutely no evidence for this. We know the Phoenician settlements, we know where they originated and we even have DNA from a carthiginian citizen that was analyzed. He has olive skin (shocker?) curly dark hair and green eyes. These are just mediterraneans. Stop with this nonsense.
@@goodfty does it really even matter? during those times, there was no racial distinctions. there was only regional distinctions. One thing we know for sure. They are not descendants of our Caucasian friends from Europe. Those people were only once removed from their Neanderthal cousins. So again, while you are quick to deny African ancestry, they are far closer than you would like to think.
@@MykaMonae check out my response to our goofy. we can see that he has expended much energy trying to denigrate black accomplishments.
I always imagined physically much more like a cross between a Greek and what we would currently call Arab
Invented the alphabet the numbers system, this was a nation of commerce and innovation, we should learn more about these people.
Unbelievable !!! Thanks. Philadelphia USA
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Video has many inaccuracies 😕
“What up Roman whadder ye doin?”
“Nothing much, my cow just died and i-“
“I’ll buy it”
“What?”
“I’ll buy the carcass for 2 denarius”
American soil? Nah buddy
the Phoenicians. my ancestors
Yea am from Tyre and I'm phoenician🤓
The first to land on American soil AND establish trade with pre-Romanized Britain? That is 2 different ideas. The way it is said is like it's one idea. If you want it to be two different ideas it should be said, "...as well as to establish trade..."
I think it's a mistake that he didn't catch until he uploaded the video
They never landed in America. That theory has been discredited. Calls this video into question
Phoenicians didn't invent the Alphabet, as is widely believed. The first Alphabetic inscriptions come from Egypt and the Sinai in the mid/late Middle Kingdom period, when there was a large population of Syrian-descended pastoral Semites living there originally as welcome guests, then falling into poverty and servitude. They derived this revolutionary new writing system from Egyptian symbols to make a far less complex writing system than those in use up to that point. These are the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions.
Discovered a little over a century ago, only a handful of words were decipherable, words common to many Semitic languages.
Every Semitic language around was used to try and translate the inscriptions more, but nothing seemed to yield real results, and interestingly, Hebrew WASN'T seriously considered because most were under the false impression that Ramses II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus in the 1200s BCE, though this identification yielded absolutely no synchronisms between Bible and Egyptian records. In reality, the Exodus happened about 500 years before Solomon's reign (c.1000 BCE), which would rule out Ramses II as a candidate for the event entirely, and setting the Hebrew's centuries-long sojourn in Egypt 2wards the end of the Middle Kingdom, after which they left Egypt and the Hyksos swooped in and eventually took over.
The point is, both the Bible and Egyptian evidence show that a large Hebrew-speaking Semitic population was in Egypt in the c.1700s-1500s BCE, and recently, a few scholars have recognized this and used the ancient Hebrew language to translate the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, and rather quickly, they found positive results.
The Bible says the Hebrews entered Canaan after a few decades and began conquering it.
Is it any coincidence, then, that at this period, we see the first appearance of the Alphabet in Canaan?
An ancient Book recounts the journeys of Semitic pastoralists from Ancient Syria/Mesopotamia into Egypt, at which point, we see several ancient Egyptian words appear in the Hebrew Torah account of the Egyptian Sojourn.
The first mention of WRITING in the Bible appears in the Exodus account when these Semites are in the Sinai desert, where the majority of the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions appear at sites like Biblical Dophkah (Serabit El-Khadim, an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine called 'Du-Mofkat', "Mountain of Turquoise"), where the Torah says the Israelites stopped en route to Mt Sinai, near another ancient mine for Copper, where an inscription was found that reads "Unto Hobab (the name of Moses' brother-in-law who was called a 'Qeni/Kenite', meaning 'metal smith') and the Assembly, Mighty is the Furnace." -Sinai Inscription 376.
Also, scholars have also determined that among the variant Abjads in the ancient Levant, it is Hebrew that seems to have retained more of a semblance of the Original mother script, so to speak.
Yet, despite all this, many cling to the random assertion that Phoenicians invented the Alphabet, despite no ancient record of Phoenicians sojourning in Egypt and being slaves, and no distinctly Phoenician words in the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions.
🧐🤔
You're wrong and just plain racist
I wouldn't be surprised that ancient writing may have originated rather in India somewhere. I am not a specialist.. but it is my intuition. When I visited Iraq I noticed some people among the population which reminded me Indians. So I thought that maybe the ancient Sumerians were maybe from India and it is them who started the Mesopotamian culture. Of course this is just my personal impression. In Iraq people don't want to be Indians but still some of them seemed to be quite similar in appearance. A minority among them.
@@NickVenture1 No not at all what are you speaking nonsense lmao. You are probably indian
@@jibaruz not at all.. This is nothing
The Egyptians used pictures as a form of writing the Phoenicians saw how long and difficult it was to use pictures as a writing method so they created an alphabet that’s how they invented the alphabet I think you may be misinformed
This question has been Milling about in my brain since probably Junior High and I'm in my forties now why is the phrase city-states why isn't your cities or just States why do we use current modern terms put two together and pretend it's something that was from ancient times did they have a word why do we translate it as meaning city and state plainly it doesn't why don't we just use the word in their language why do we use this stupid term that annoys my senses everytime I hear it
My ancestors
this video was from my school
Sinbad was a phoenician
4:49 "provided a new method of manufacture of 'phaeons' to the Egyptians"? Wtf? This guy seems to just be reading the WorldBook Encyclopedia entry for "Phoenician"... He doesn't even know the words he's trying to say... What a hack! 👎😖
I like this channel, but...it's exactly like Weied history lol
They showed something They shouldn’t have
Your video is incorrect. The Greeks were worshiping Zeus 500 yrs (3000 B.C.) before the Phoenicians were even established (in 2500 B.C.). Not only that, they were involved in many wars and one of their main founding cities, Carthage, faught with Rome all the time. Before that and becoming merchant's they faught with the Amorites and Hittites, and were involved with some tifts with Egypt, until joining in commerce with them. The Phoenicians were the ones that built commerce and trade, leading to the slave trade and maritime law's. It was through their greed that advanced corruption and the slaughter of empire's that they bought themselves out of into the new ruling one's. They were the definition of what hedge fund billionaires, wealthy corporation leaders are today. They are a main root cause of the division by status and money and keeping the poor, poor in the world that is still done today..
They are Semitic and we Semites are gods on this earth
School video lol
English alphabet? I'm sorry, but the alphabet ain't "English"...
The phoenician alphabet was given to the greeks, then the greeks gave it to Etruscans, then to romans which is today's latin alphabet