Re: New contribution

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 11:31:06 CDT


On 04/05/2004 14:44, Dean Snyder wrote:

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Your other reasons are good, but this one seems dubious. The Phoenicians
dominated the Mediterranean, and the Greeks got a look in only when the
Phoenicians declined, surely? And the Greek never got as far as England,
at least not until the Romans did. Way off topic, of course.

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