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Post by Niklianos on Oct 22, 2008 18:31:50 GMT -5
if you mean phonecians when you say assyrians or maybe you ment sumerian but phonecians are a sumerian people and then from phonecians came the carthageneans (modern day tunisia) who almost brought down rome , then there is a thing greeks burrowed i think it is some letters in the alphabet i dont know more how about greeks and phonecians influenced eachother, but there has to be more because both greeks and phonecians where a sea trading people around the mediterrenean so they had contact. Phoenicians = Sumerian? Umm I believe you are way off here. The Phoenicians are believed to have originated in the Aegean and East Mediterranean. You must think of the sea-faring traditions of the Phoenicians and the lack of from the Sumerian who were landlocked.
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Post by Dragos Voda on Oct 22, 2008 18:50:37 GMT -5
The Phoenicians were a Semitic people and the Sumerians belonged to an unknown language group. The Sumerians were eventually absorbed by two other Semitic peoples: the Babylonians and then the Assyrians. I read somewhere that reed columns used to hold up mud huts in Mesopotamia were precursors of the Greek marble columns.
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Post by meltdown711 on Oct 22, 2008 20:56:52 GMT -5
By the time the Phoenicians had a self-identity the Sumerians had been extinct for over a 1000 years... Not to mention they were from entirely different regions (Sumerians = Iraq, Phoenicians = Lebanon). Phoenicians however were the Canaanites of the Bible as the name given to them in there is very similar to their emic name.)
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Post by kartadolofonos on Oct 22, 2008 20:57:39 GMT -5
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Post by Red Brigade on Oct 25, 2008 8:55:09 GMT -5
People have influenced each other and that is good otherwise each one of us would have to reinvent everything from the beginning.
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