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Phoenician art was largely centered on ornamental objects, particularly jewelry, pottery, glassware, and reliefs. [116] Large sculptures were rare; figurines were more common. Phoenician goods have been found from Spain and Morocco to Russia and Iraq; much of what is known about Phoenician art is based on excavations outside Phoenicia proper.
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC. [1]
Unlike in other areas of the empire, including adjacent Jerusalem and Samaria, there is no record of Persian administrators governing the Phoenician city-states. Local Phoenician kings were allowed to remain in power and even given the same rights as Persian satraps (governors), such as hereditary offices and minting their own coins. [58]
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in modern ...
"map of Phoenicia", apparently intended to give a rough idea of the part of the Levant known as "Phoenicia", it does not correspond to any historical empire or polity. The cities indicated are the ancient Phoenician city states, perhaps in the Late Bronze Age (?) Date: 20 May 2008: Source: This map: Author: Kordas, based on Alvaro's work: Other ...
Officer, James E. Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856 (U. of Arizona Press, 1987) Sheridan, Thomas E. Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941 (U. of Arizona Press, 1986) Sheridan, Thomas E. "The limits of power: the political ecology of the Spanish Empire in the Greater Southwest." Antiquity 66.250 (1992): 153–171. online
Map of Hohokam lands c. 1350. The Hohokam people occupied the Phoenix area for 2,000 years. [24] [25] They created roughly 135 miles (217 kilometers) of irrigation canals, making the desert land arable, and paths of these canals were used for the Arizona Canal, Central Arizona Project Canal, and the Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the annexation of northwestern Arizona on January 18, 1867. An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Arizona to the Union on February 14, 1912. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959.