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Phoenicia
A thalassocracy of independent Canaanite city-states, Phoenicia knitted the Iron-Age Mediterranean together through maritime trade, the alphabet, and a far-flung colonial network that permanently altered the course of Western civilization.
HistoryMinoan Civilization
Europe’s first great civilization, the Minoans forged a cosmopolitan, sea-linked Bronze-Age culture on Crete whose art, architecture and writing shaped the foundations of later Greek and Western history.