Genişleme

(İng. expansion)

Göndermeler

Diğer

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.

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.