Be Phoenician

As a quick aside, how phonecian are Lebanese people? I'm half Lebanese and my dad always said that were technically Phoenician and not Arab.

Which is probably true, but I'm sure people from the Levant have some Arab in them

>That'll do phoenicia, that'll do

Your dad is right. Move to byblos and marry a native phoenician qt to embolden your maritime heritage.

Honestly I'd love nothing more than to knock up a pure leb girl with a fat ass and a big nose and restore my ancestors dignity

>sexi
>lol
wtf

They forgot "Cartagena" in Spain

They forgot other Phoenician cities in Sicily and Sardinia too

>invent alphabet
wrong, they just never forgot how to write
>colonize med before anyone else
wrong
>first maritime league
wrong
>first globalized world
super wrong, do you know nothing about the bronze age?

>get destroyed and forgotten forever
the fact that you made a thread about them means that's wrong too

You're not. 636 is year zero for the Middle East, nothing that existed there before that date would continue to exist after it. Every Middle Easterner today is descended from Peninsular Bedouin.

Why don't you prove him wrong by naming who the firsts were for all those? Because right now it looks like you're mumbling "no u" and that's all.

He's just butthurt that the pheonicians streamlined cuneiforms into a working alphabet.
>inb4 muh proto-senaitic alphabet
still got adopted by the phoenicians if true, and was streamlined into a working model. Still the same outcome. Greeks only added vowels later, it was pretty much perfect.

the med was colonized by the sea peoples who coincidentally were also the first maritime league, the first globalized world was the late bronze age eastern Mediterranean civilizations which included the Minoans, Mycenaeans, Hittites, Assyrians, Canaanites, Babylonians, and Egyptians

ok you got me on that one

>The med was first colonized by somebody whose true identity is a mystery

>get destroyed and forgotten forever
Then how do we know about them?

>be Phoenician
>start western philosophy

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus

Why are Phoenicians so underrated, Veeky Forums?

stop being autistic you know what he meant, they're just completely ignored by mainstream culture. They're not the only ones though. Only time I ever seen pop culture references to phoenicians or hittites was in fucking asterix.

Which modern European cities were founded by the Phoenicians?

Palermo, Cagliari, Malaga, Gades, Olbia, Sant'Antioco.

nordic bronze age culture is stil the most superior culture

Considering our generation of history buffs universally started with Age of Empires, your claim is a bit dated.

The alphabet was NOT a phnecian invention, they took it from the Egyptians, who used an alphabet as part of their curious tri-form writing system. They DID popularise the idea, tho, but it's really like calling the Indian numerals "Arabic" simply because it was the Arabs who popularised them in the West.

> Be European
>Have your continent named after a Phoenician
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(mythology)

the Egyptians didn't use an alphabet before the Phoenicians. old egyptian is syllabic.

The Egyptians wrote with three classes of symbols, ideograms, syllabics, and consonants. The Phonecians took just the consonants and used them without the other symbols. They weren't even the only people to do this, they were just the ones who happened to pass on the idea to the Greeks, who in turn are responsible for 99% of the actual spreading of the idea more widely.

proto-sinaitic was not at all common across egypt, developed quite late in its history and only on its fringes (hence why it's called sinaitic, as in senai region). It was also fairly convoluted so while it is technically true it was the first proto-alphabet, it's the phoenicians who refined it alongside cuneiform and aramean influence to create their own consonant-only alphabet. It wasn't just a case of copying & repackaging like you make it sound.

The adjab the phonecians invented is the adjab of the Egyptians. It's not even really changed, just the symbols are rotated. Proto-Sinaltic is just one of the examples of subject people of the Egyptians adopting the Egyptian abjad

There was the Ugaritic alphabet too guys, also older than Phoenician (Ugarit got destroyed in 1180 bc)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugaritic_alphabet

No influence beyond itself, much like the Linear A and B of Crete.

Linear A and Linear B weren't alphabet though, they were syllabic scripts, we're talking about the earliest alphabets so I thought I'd post this.