22. How is Turner's theory of both geography and the Frontier demonstrated in the Phoenician culture?

The Phoenician way of life was heavily influenced by the existence of an uncharted frontier where they could push out in search of new resources and new products, causing them to become a trade based nation. All of its cities were along the coast of the Mediterranean sea, a few on islands, and were all part of what was less a nation, more a business conglomerate of independent city states. Creating the alphabet as a tool for communication, they could communicate any language using this new technology, allowing them to reliably communicate over the expanse of their trade network. Turner's theory of the frontier is the idea that the existence of an uncharted and freely available frontier was the primary driver of American history. They traded throughout the Mediterranean sea, north as far as Ireland, and south along the Gull Coast, further than anyone else at the time. Phoenicia was a largely coastal area and for that reason became a largely seafaring nation, defining itself by the geography it existed in and allowing its geography to guide its own development.

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