Before Phoenicians became a great civilization, they were just a bunch of cities in what today is Lebanon. These cities lived among empires for a long time, the Greeks to the West, the Persians to the East, and the Egyptians to the South-West, and they survived thanks to trade. The region in which they lived was in the middle of trading routes between these empires and other cultures and, since they lived in the coastline of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, they became great sailors. They combined their sailing abilities with their commerce abilities to trade different goods -wood, slaves, glass- throughout the Mediterranean and, slowly, became a great rich naval and trading power. They traveled as far as the Iberian peninsula in order to get silver and then sell it to the Egyptians. They traded so much and so many different goods that they needed to establish several colonies in strategical points around the Mediterranean Sea, so they could get raw materials and manufactured goods from the sources much faster. Therefore, they made colonies in North-Africa, in what today is Tunisia and called it Carthage -their most important colony-, in the Iberian peninsula, in Sicily, in Cyprus among many others. They were present in these sites for many centuries and gained a great political influence in the entire region. Thanks to their colonies and influence, their culture was spread around the Mediterranean, especially their alphabet, which was the first writing system to be disseminated in this region. The Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabets, among others.
<span>Choosing to engage in military action to assist another country is an example of a military alliance. A military alliance is an international agreement among countries who promise to help and support each other in times of wars or crisis among countries. A coalition is similar, but in this case, there is already a known crisis when help is given.</span>
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Rationalism was a very important philosophical current in Modernity. As a conception of philosophical knowledge, rationalism began to take shape during the Renaissance, but its early origins can go back to Greek philosophy, with the Platonic idealist theses and the conception of the principle of causality.
The main objective of rationalism is to theorize the way of knowing about human beings, not accepting any empirical element as a source of true knowledge. For the rationalists, all the ideas we have originate from pure rationality, which also imposes an innate conception, that is, that the ideas have innate origins in the human being, being born with us in our intellect and being used and discovered by the people who they make better use of reason. Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are considered rationalist philosophers.
