. An essay on western civilization in its economic aspects ... y probable thatthey also had depots from which they procured wool and Egypt their commercial settlements were mere factories, asthe Pharaohs would not allow them any independence; but inother countries each community had practical autonomy, andcomplete control over the material resources within its reach. The period of Sidonian colonisation may be said to haveclosed with the building of Tyre; but before this date thePhoenicians had already gone far afield. They probably firstfound their way to Cyprus, attracted by the ric
. An essay on western civilization in its economic aspects ... y probable thatthey also had depots from which they procured wool and Egypt their commercial settlements were mere factories, asthe Pharaohs would not allow them any independence; but inother countries each community had practical autonomy, andcomplete control over the material resources within its reach. The period of Sidonian colonisation may be said to haveclosed with the building of Tyre; but before this date thePhoenicians had already gone far afield. They probably firstfound their way to Cyprus, attracted by the rich veins of copper,as well as by the silver and iron which that island they founded Paphos and other cities, both on the southcoast and in the interior ; they probably worked their way west-wards along the coast of Asia Minor; and certain traces * ofoccupation are found at Rhodes. This was the natural basis ^ Meyer, Alterthum, I. 230. ^ A number of Phoenician remains which were discovered in a grave atlalysos are preserved in the British ^ III.] Phoenicia. 6i for their commercial operations in the Aegean; and though theytraded to the coasts, they seem on the whole to have preferredto establish their settlements on the islands^; thus they occu-pied Cythera, Melos, Thera and Thasos, which gave themaccess to the Thracian coast, and furnished supplies of one or two points on the mainland they may liave settledfor a time, as at Corinth^, at Thebes, and on the coast ofThrace ; while it is more than probable that they forced theirway through the narrow channel of the Hellespont into theBlack Sea*; the fisheries and wool-growing lands, as well asthe iron mines, would tempt them thither, while they wouldalso strike the line of the amber trade*. But they could notlong preserve a monopoly in this quarter; the Greeks soonlearned to resist their depredations and to imitate their methodsof seamanship and settlement. The decline of the supremacyof Sidon in Phoeni
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