it was way bigger than most cities & had paved streets :)
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>
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Islam spread throughout the world through wars, invasions, but also, through the influence of merchants, so-called traders, who went long straight through Asia. Muhammad, even, was part of a caravan of traders.
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