Editing Ancient history (section)

====Phoenicia====
[[Phoenicia]] was an ancient civilisation centred in the north of ancient [[Canaan]], with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern-day [[Lebanon]], Syria and Israel. Phoenician civilisation was an enterprising [[thalassocracy|maritime trading culture]] that spread across the [[Mediterranean]] between the period of 1550 to 300 BC.{{sfn|Bentley|Ziegler|2006|pp=48–49}} One Phoenician colony, [[Carthage]], ruled an empire in the Western Mediterranean until being defeated by Rome in the [[Punic Wars]].{{sfn|Parker|2017|p=58}} The Phoenicians invented the [[Phoenician alphabet]], the forerunner of the modern [[alphabet]] still in use today.{{sfn|Parker|2017|p=49–51}}