[DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] The Phoenicians were a great maritime people, known for their mighty ships ... 
today and their city of Gebal (called by the Greeks 'Byblos') gave the Bible its 
name (from ... were primarily known as sailors who had developed a high level of 
skill in ... of the Tyrians forbade foreigners from sacrificing, or even attending 
services,... [DOC] [TLE] The Great Influence of Ancient Phoenicians | The Classroom ... [PAR] The Phoenicians were a seafaring Canaanite people who lived in a ... The 
Phoenician writing system was the ancestor of the Greek alphabet and is the root 
of ... The Greeks called the Phoenicians phoinios, meaning purple because of 
the ... They developed systems of navigation even using the North Star to sail at 
night. [DOC] [TLE] The Phoenicians - World History International [PAR] The Phoenicians were the great merchants of ancient times. ... The town is called 
Sur in Arabic. ... There were no major Phoenician cities north of Arvad, but 
Phoenician ... Guided by the stars they sail at night over dark, dangerous, 
uncharted waters, ... Soon after Greece is invaded by Xerxes, the Persian "King of 
Kings". [DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia, Phoenician Trade & Ships [PAR] In Egypt the Phoenician merchants soon gained a foothold; they alone were able 
to ... The Sidonians are also famous in the poems of Homer as craftsmen, traders, 
pirates, .... Ships of this kind, which the Greeks called "biremes," are represented 
in .... which they discovered to be the star most nearly marking the true north. [DOC] [TLE] Carthaginians in the New World - A Bequest Unearthed, Phoenicia [PAR] They were able to navigate by the stars, unlike their Greek and Roman ... to have 
been a Punic or rather Phoenician style of architecture too, for even King 
Solomon .... were known to navigate by the stars, and in fact the Romans called 
the North star ... Furthermore, some instinctive oceanic navigation skill was very 
probable... [DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia - Wikipedia [PAR] Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization of an unknown origin 
situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centred on the 
coastline of what is now Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria, though 
some colonies reached the Western Mediterranean and even the Atlantic Ocean. 
... Phoenicia is really a Classical Greek term used to refer to the region of the... [DOC] [TLE] Origin of the Phoenicians in Phoenicia [PAR] Origin of the Phoenicians, founding of Phoenicia, formation of Lebanon, ... by the 
ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who suggested the Phoenicians had ... While 
it is true that everyone who lived in the region known as Canaan could be called 
... After that event, the intruders were said to have merged with the local people... [DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia and the Phoenician Civilization - Maronite Catholic Church [PAR] the Phoenicians spread the use of the alphabet to North Africa and Europe ... 
Ever since the time of antiquity, when the Lebanese were only known by the 
name of ... and guided by the northern star, also known as the Phoenician star, 
Phoenician .... Even the Olympic Games, which the whole world thinks was a 
Greek... [DOC] [TLE] Mariners Weather Log Vol. 52, No. 2, August 2008 [PAR] May 15, 2015 ... By the Fifth Century, BCE, the Greeks were using a lead line which is ... The 
Phoenicians were masters of sea travel covering great distances in their ... writers 
the Phoenician Star and now known as Polaris or the North Star. .... above the 
horizon, even when the instrument did not look like a Cross-Staff. [DOC] [TLE] Phoenicians in America - Jason Colavito [PAR] Even in later times Greek observers noted with admiration the exact order kept on 
board Phoenician ships, the skill with which every ... issue of the inter-marriages 
of the Phoenicians with the so-called savages whom they found in ..... west, as 
these Phoenicians were accustomed to do on their historic route, by the pole-star,
... [DOC] [TLE] History of Phoenicians | [PAR] Therefor smaller states like Phoenicia and the Hebrew

Question: The Phoenicians were known for this skill; even the Greeks called the North Star the Phoenician Star
Answer: navigation