. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. i:entry of the sea, which ar1 a merchant of the people formany isles. Thus earth the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hastsaid, I am of perfect beauty. 12. Tarshish [Spain] was thy merchant by reason of themultitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, andlead, they I raded in i hy fairs. 16. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude ofthe wares of thy making; they occupied in thy fairs withemeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, andcoral, and agate. 24. These were thy merchants in .-ill sorts of things,
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. i:entry of the sea, which ar1 a merchant of the people formany isles. Thus earth the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hastsaid, I am of perfect beauty. 12. Tarshish [Spain] was thy merchant by reason of themultitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, andlead, they I raded in i hy fairs. 16. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude ofthe wares of thy making; they occupied in thy fairs withemeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, andcoral, and agate. 24. These were thy merchants in .-ill sorts of things, in blueclothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel,bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy mer-chandise. (Ezekiel, XXVII.) 64. Influence of the Phoenicians. It was through thePhoenicians, after the decline of the Cretan culture, thatthe Greeks kept in touch with the knowledge and skill ofthe Babylonians and Egyptians. The Greeks, therefore,regarded the Phoenicians as the inventors of writing and of f,| CIVILIZATION OF EGYPT AND WESTERN ASIA. the manufacture of glass, as the orst people bo work themetals into artistic ornaments and utensils, and as theoriginators of the system of measures and weights whichthey used. In this the Greeks were wrong,for the Phoenicians had learned thesethings from the Babylonians. Theirgenius lay in taking the ideas of othersand adapting them for use in theirtrade; but they were in no sense art distinctly shows that theyc o p i <* d Engraved Phcbnician Egyptian and Bab- The Egyptian sym-bols, the winged lun- y lo U i :i n ,di i tcred beetle, , , .hawk headed gods, all AUi[ {AU r*.show the Egyptian in- ( 5 p e e K ,,,,•• models. The importance of thePhoenician towns lies in thefact that they were the pioneers who headed theSemitic movement whieh brought the western Mediter-ranean into contact with life of the East. They educated Hie undevelopedpeoples of the West, as faras Spain, in the manua
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