SAFAGEOHISTORIA

CIVILISATION: A set of cultural and artistic customs, ideas nd forms of expression in human societies. The first ones were the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian and Chinese civilizations; all of them had writing.

 

PHOENICIANS: people established in the Canaan region –present-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel– since the 3rd millennium B.C. They founded several commercial colonies along the Mediterranean coast, such as Gadir (Cádiz) until Alexander the Great conquered the territory they occupied.

 

HEBREWS: set of semi-nomadic tribes from the Canaan region that moved to Egypt in the 2nd millennium B.C.. They were monotheists and their sacred texts: the Bible and the Talmud, influenced Christianity and Islam. After the Roman occupation in the 1st century B.C., they called themselves Jews.