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In a message dated 99-12-21 17:48:50 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>This is probably true also. But only because the Phoenicians traded along
>the coasts. Many nations, including Egypt, sailed along the coasts.
Egypt had an AVERSION to the sea. So, when it came to seafaring, the
Egyptians "contracted out" to the Phoenicians, Mycenaeans, and perhaps
earlier the Minoans.
The Phoenicians were tolerated as "colonial governors" for absentee-landlord
Egypt, particularly around the time of the early Israelite "Kingdom." The
Mycenaeans were virtually nobodies until they settled in the Delta and signed
on as Egypt's mercenaries, to fill the vacuum left by the deterioration of
Phoenician control of its "colony" Canaan.
After the civil war under King Solomon (who married an Egyptian princess as a
token of his "fealty" to the Pharaoh) which split Israel into Judah, isolated
inland in the far south, and Israel (the Ten Tribes) in the north, nextdoor
to Tyre and Sidon, Judah declined in all aspects of culture while the
Northern Kingdom, "Phoenicia's" partner, prospered and
excelled in its culture -- reflecting its mercantile relations with both
Egypt and Greece.
Only the Assyrians, elbowing into the area from Mesopotamia, hoping to gain
control of Mediterranean trade by conquering "Phoenicia" plus "Israel,"
changed that equation.
The Canaanite-Phoenicians were THEN driven more westward into the
Mediterranean and became primarily "Phoenicians," i.e., COLONIAL seaport
settlers, instead of urban Canaanites on Near Eastern coastlines. The
histories of the Canaanite-Phoenicians written by Sancthuniathon <sp?> et
al., who had access to more ancient archives still in Byblos, referred
explicitly to their origin as an URBANIZED people in the Holy Land who LATER
just happened to develop a sea trade (after the MINOAN civilization fell).
They too declined as the Mycenaeans, evolving into "Greeks," grew in greater
favor with Egypt, who, as "breadbasket of the Mediterranean," was always in
"remote-control" of the Levant -- until itself conquered by Persia, and by
Persia's conqueror, Alexander.
The sea-rule of the Phoenicians and Mycenaeans spanned a mere 500 years, 1100
to 600 BC, coinciding with Israel's history. That was "Egypt's" only great
maritime period too -- excluding seafaring feats attributed to Old Kingdom
pharaohs 1500 years earlier.
(And that EARLIER epoch, according to Herodotus, was when Egypt founded
Byblos, first of its "colonies" in the Near East [and ALSO when Egyptians
colonized Crete?].)
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