Freedmen to exercise their new political rights<span>
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Jerusalem is important because it is considered as the holy land for Muslims, Christian’s and Jews. The Christians found this place important because that is where Jesus was born. For Muslims, (sorry I don’t remember/ I think it was where Mohammed ascended) and for the Jewish people that was where the fiat temple was made.
The role that tradition especially assigns to the Phoenicians as the merchants of the Levant was first developed on a considerable scale at the time of the Egyptian 18th dynasty. The position of Phoenicia, at a junction of both land and sea routes, under the protection of Egypt, favoured this development, and the discovery of the alphabet and its use and adaptation for commercial purposes assisted the rise of a mercantile society. A fresco in an Egyptian tomb of the 18th dynasty depicted seven Phoenician merchant ships that had just put in at an Egyptian port to sell their goods, including the distinctive Canaanite wine jars in which wine, a drink foreign to the Egyptians, was imported.<span>
Read more: Phoenicia, Phoenician Trade & Ships <span>http://phoenicia.org/trade.html#ixzz4OlpKoYqB</span></span>
There was new music, such as jazz and the blues. New churches and religious customs came north. There was different food and spoken dialect. Celebrations from their cultures came along with new neighborhoods. Finally, newspapers and journals had more of an impact.
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desert and sand that slowed wagons to crawl
