naucratis was founded by the phoenicians around 800 b.c.
naucratis was founded by the phoenicians around 800 b.c.
founded by the phoenicians around 800 b.c the city of?
naucratis
the phoenicians became well known amongst contemporaries as "traders in purple" – a reference to their monopoly over the purple dye extracted from the murex shell. the phoenicians plied their ships across the mediterranean, becoming a major trading power by the 9th century bce. phoenician merchant traders imported and exported wood, textiles, glass and produce such as wine, oil, dried fruit and nuts. their trading necessitated a network of colonies along the mediterranean coast, stretching from modern-day crete through to tangiers (in present-day morocco) and northward to sardinia. the phoenicians not only traded in tangible goods, but were also instrumental in transporting the trappings of culture. the phoenicians' extensive trade networks necessitated considerable book-keeping and correspondence. in around 1500 bce, the phoenicians developed a script which was much easier to learn that the pictographic systems used in ancient egypt and mesopotamia. phoenician traders and merchants were largely responsible for spreading their alphabet around the region. phoenician inscriptions have been found in archaeological sites at a number of former phoenician cities and colonies around the mediterranean, such as byblos (in present-day lebanon) and carthage in north africa.
merchant
the talent as a unit of weight was introduced in mesopotamia at the end of the 4th millennium bc, and was normalized at the end of the 3rd millennium during the akkadian-sumer phase. it was divided into 60 minas, each of which was subdivided into 60 shekels. the use of 60 illustrates the attachment of the early mesopotamians to their useful sexagesimal arithmetic. these weights were used subsequently by the babylonians, sumerians, and phoenicians, and later by the hebrews. the babylonian weights are approximately: shekel (8.4 gm), mina (504 gm), and talent (30.2 kg = 66.6 lb). the phoenicians took their trade to the greeks with their weight measures during the archaic period, and the latter adopted these weights and their ratio of 60 minas to one talent; a greek mina in euboea around 800 b.c. was hence 504 gm; other minas in the mediterranean basin, and even greek minas in other parts of greece, varied locally in some small measure from the babylonian values, and from one to another.
talent (measurement)