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precious metals but hewed the plentiful marble

with consummate skill. The temple of Hera

exemplifies the scope and quality of sculpture

acquired from the seventh

through the third centuries B.C.E. :

In Asia Minor, beginning with the installation of a
democratic government in Ephesus by Alexander

the Great in 334 B.C.E. , some 700,000 tourists
would crowd the city (in what is now Turkey) in a

single season to be entertained by the acrobats,
animal acts, jugglers, magicians, and prostitutes

who filled the streets. Ephesus also became an

important trading center and, under Alexander,

was one of the most important cities in the

ancient world.

Early Ships

The Phoenicians were master shipwrights,

building tubby wooden craft with a single square

sail. By 800 B.C.E. , they had built a network of

trading posts around the Mediterranean

emanating from their own thriving cities along the

coast in what is now Lebanon. Acting as

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