PHOENICIANS : BEFORE AMAZON CAME IN

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This was their Empire.

                                                                   Phoenician empire

Basically a sea faring trading people with their funny boats, who were the trading link between, Greeks, Indians, Egyptians and so on. Basically they were the Amazon inc of those times. Phoenician alphabets were widely used and thus the word phonetics.

                                           Phoenician coin depicting their galleys 

                                                          Phoenician trading ships