腓尼基人(Phoenician)是一个古老民族,生活在今天地中海东岸相当于今天的黎巴嫩和叙利亚沿海一带,自称为迦南人(Canaan),被希腊人称为腓尼基人,是西部闪米特人的西北分支,创立了腓尼基字母 ;腓尼基人善于航海与经商,在全盛期曾控制了西地中海的贸易。
腓尼基人从大约公元前3000年起就居住在这个地区,也就是现在的黎巴嫩和叙利亚。
The Phoenicians inhabited the region of modem Lebanon and Syria from about 3000 BC.
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。
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.
腓尼基人的贸易和航海技能造就了一个殖民地网络,并通过地中海向西扩展。
The trading and seafaring skills of the Phoenicians resulted in a network of colonies, spreading westwards through the Mediterranean.
Carthage is a colony of Phoenician cities.
迦太基是腓尼基人的殖民地
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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