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(İng. oversea)

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The Early Iron Age was therefore a period of commercial expansion for the coastal cities of Phoenicia, both at home and overseas. This period of prosperity also resulted in the emergence of urbanisation, an important innovation that would come to be synonymous with the Phoenicians. At Tyre and Sarepta, for instance, architectural innovation and a move towards urbanism led both cities to alter their layout significantly during this period.

the craftsmen relied on merchants to obtain the raw materials they required for production and to find new and profitable overseas markets in which their finished products could be sold; in return merchants expected to be supplied with high-quality items at a price which allowed them to make a decent profit. These relationships not only helped to keep transaction costs low and profits high, they also enabled greater specialisation.

A particularly contentious subject is the appropriateness of using terms such as ‘colony’ and ‘colonisation’. In the English language the term ‘colony’, derived from the Latin noun colonia, was originally used to denote an overseas settlement that had been founded on the directive of a state or empire and so remained subject to its rule. However, the term has become historically associated with European expansions into overseas territories during the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries CE (e.g. the British colonisation of Africa and India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and so has acquired imperial connotations.