Both of these activities were based on seafaring, an ability the Phoenicians developed from the example of their maritime predecessors, the Minoans of Crete.

这两项活动都以航海为基础，这是腓尼基人从他们的海上前辈——克里特岛的米诺斯人那里发展出来的一种能力。

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The extensive trade of Phoenicia required much book-keeping and correspondence, and it was in the field of writing that the Phoenicians made their most lasting contribution to world history.

腓尼基广泛的贸易需要大量的簿记和通信，而腓尼基人对世界历史最持久的贡献就是在写作领域。

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The Phoenicians, in about 1500 BC, developed an entirely new approach to writing.

腓尼基人在公元前1500年左右发展了一种全新的书写方法。

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If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.

后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说，腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。

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