Why is this happening? In fact, there are many factors here, and the biggest factor is just two points. The first point is the concept of the strong prey on the weak, that is, a powerful empire can kill weak tribes at any time, and then obtain wealth from weak tribes, and even obtain slaves. Moreover, the current Pharaoh Empire is already very powerful, so it has begun to be better for the civilians in their own empires. At this point, the main source of slaves is to eliminate other weak tribes, or to eliminate the empires.

The second point is threats. For example, there is an empire that is too powerful now, which makes the Pharaoh feel that he must stop the empire from continuing to develop. Then the only way to prevent the development of another empire is too simple, which is to destroy them, steal all their wealth, and then enslave their tribe members.

Why did Pharaoh become hostile to the Phoenicians now? In fact, the reason why Pharaoh became hostile to the Phoenicians was not the first prey of the weak. After all, the geographical location of the Phoenicians was a bit special, and Pharaoh's own empire was not easy to send troops there, so the reason why Pharaoh became hostile to the Phoenicians was because he felt that the Phoenicians were too powerful, which seemed to be threatened by his own empire.

Why did Pharaoh think so? In fact, this era is different from our current era. Pharaoh mainly judged that the Phoenicians were already very powerful from the perspective of knowledge inheritance. It was very difficult for Pharaoh's own empire to pass on knowledge inheritance, and there were many rules. Let's explain it in proportion:

For example, in the current Pharaoh Empire, the teacher walked into the classroom. The teacher might be a middle-aged man wearing a short wool coat, a round head, a short neck, and a shaved hair and beard. He now walked onto the podium, cleared his throat, and said to the students below: Students, we will start class now.

Then the teacher took out a half-wet clay board and wrote the word "Niu" and "Shan" on it. This asked the student, "Teacher, the first word is "Niu" and the second word is "Shan", but what does these two words mean together?

The teacher will say, think about it, it’s not the cattle raised at home, but what kind of cattle are in the mountain? Then a student suddenly realized, oh, it’s a bison! The teacher will continue to say, yes, you’re very smart, this word means bison.

The teacher wrote another word bird and egg, and then asked the students, guess what word this word is? This time the students were in a deep thought. In the end, another student said that it was a new word, and the teacher would nod and approve, saying: By the way! In fact, our words are all combined, such as the word sky plus water is the word rain, and the word eye plus water is the word tears.

After saying that, the teacher looked at the students with a smile, then picked up the pen and wrote a word "foot" and a word "plough" on the clay board. Then the students said: Teacher, this is a word "foot" and a word "plough" and we have learned it before. The teacher said: Yes, it is the word "foot" and a word "plough", but in addition to the meaning of foot, the word "foot" can also represent the meaning of walking and standing. In addition to the word "plough", the word "plough" can also represent the meaning of people who plow fields and farm fields. This is a multi-word meaning, everyone should remember it.

Then the teacher continued to say that the word arrow also has the meaning of life, and their pronunciation is the same. Everyone must pay attention to it when using it. Another thing is that everyone is a man. When writing his name, he should draw an inverted triangle in front as a mark to indicate that you are a man.

We can actually see a lot of information from this, one is the difficulty of inheriting textual knowledge, and even the teacher's dedication and even good character. The main factor that causes all this is the power of the empire. If the empire is not strong enough, all this is empty talk because it does not have the conditions for inheriting knowledge.

Another thing we can see is that in fact, in the Pharaoh era, it was a society where men were supreme. After all, there were almost no girls among this group of students.

Speaking of this, then back to our previous topic, it was said that Pharaoh judged that the Phoenicians could pose a threat to their empire. One of the main factors was that the Phoenicians were too smart and had a very good knowledge inheritance. Pharaoh believed that this was caused by the power of the Phoenicians' empire. Another thing was that these Phoenicians not only knew how to use their own twenty-two-letter writing system, but even used a variety of other writing systems, and had maritime hegemony, so Pharaoh was ready to attack them and could no longer let them go.

Of course, when it comes to Pharaohs trying to attack them, people from other places also want to attack the Phoenicians. Why? In fact, people in some places think that the Phoenicians are not merchants, but liars, or big liars!

Why do these people think so? Actually, how do you say this? Let's understand it this way. The metal of gold is actually very valuable in the empire of Egypt's pharaohs. However, in a small tribe along the Mediterranean coast, gold is something in the sand and is not valuable at all. They will also extract the gold into jewelry. However, for them, these gold can only be used as jewelry and look more beautiful, and there is no other value at all. Sometimes they will even use a pure gold bracelet and exchange it with their neighbors for a pack of dried dried fish, and even their neighbors are unwilling to change it.

But the Phoenicians knew the value of this metal in the Egyptian Pharaoh Empire. Let’s talk about this pure gold bracelet. In the Pharaoh Empire, at least ten sheep could be exchanged for. What is this concept? So after the Phoenicians arrived in this place, they did not tell these people that this gold was very valuable in the Egyptian Pharaoh Empire. Instead, they said that the Phoenicians prefer this metal and thought they were shiny and looked very beautiful, so they wanted to use it to make small jewelry like their locals to wear it.

Therefore, the Phoenicians even used an ordinary numb dress transported from Egypt, which required the locals to exchange for about five kilograms of gold. The locals didn't think there was anything strange about it, because there was too much gold in the local area, but they did not have linen clothes, so they were willing to exchange it.

Then the Phoenicians even used some gadgets that were not very valuable in the Egyptian Empire, and all exchanged a lot of gold with the locals.

This incident made the locals confused. Why did the Phoenicians particularly like gold? If they were to make jewelry, they had been exchanged for too much gold for many years. Moreover, these locals also found that the Phoenicians would rather exchange other items on the boat for gold except for some of their own food and water.

Therefore, these locals began to guess whether this gold was very precious? And the locals finally hid on the Phoenician ship, and followed the golden ship to the Pharaoh Empire in Egypt. Only then did they realize that gold was so valuable in the Pharaoh Empire in Egypt. A pure gold bracelet could be exchanged for more than ten sheep, or even more. What is this concept?

So the local man finally hid on the boat and returned to the local area and told their own people about this. In fact, the local man was not discovered by the Phoenicians because the Phoenicians had larger ships and more cargo at this time, so the local man was not discovered.

But now these locals know the Phoenician tricks, so they violently raised the exchange price of gold. However, the Phoenicians disagreed and said that these things can only be used as accessories, which almost means nothing to them. The locals do not believe these Phoenicians' nonsense, so they know that the Phoenicians are big liars! Therefore, this indirectly made these locals have strong hostility towards the Phoenicians.

Another thing is that the Phoenicians often exchanged gold for items in the Egyptian Pharaoh's empire. Pharaoh liked gold very much, or everyone in the entire empire liked gold. Gold was simply the absolute concept of money, so the magic of gold was very powerful, but the Pharaoh understood that the Phoenicians had a large amount of gold, which deepened the hostility of Pharaoh to them.

Then people from other places also deepened their hostility towards the Phoenicians. Originally, tribes in some places were originally isolated from the world, but since the Phoenicians came, they often transported a lot of resources from the local area. At first, it was a form of transactions, which was that the Phoenicians gave the locals some things and then exchanged for other things. But now the Phoenicians have become more and more demanding.

Why do we say that the Phoenicians have become more and more arrogant? In fact, this is not difficult to understand. We have said before that the Phoenicians would build ports locally and leave their own Phoenician people locally, and the more they stayed, this was the initial colonization!

Moreover, the Phoenicians' technology was very developed because they could get any resources they wanted. Therefore, the Phoenicians who stayed in the local area, because of their well-equipped equipment, were the expansion of desire, so they wanted to completely control the local area. Then, as slave owners, they asked the locals to mine the resources they needed so that they could not exchange them, and then transport these resources to a powerful empire in exchange for all the resources they wanted.

It is precisely because of this expansion of desire and even the various factors of colonization that the Phoenician colonists often conflicted with local people, because the locals felt that the Phoenicians were not exchanging things at all, but were just robbing openly. However, from our perspective today, the practice of the Phoenician colonists was undoubtedly robbery, and it was even more serious than the crime of robbery. The Phoenicians enslaved the locals to mine resources for them and then transported them away.

But in this process, many people in Phoenicians died, because this conflict was generally serious, so after careful consideration, the Phoenicians mobilized a large number of troops from their hometowns and then transported them through sea. This was the outbreak of the first total war between the colonists and the locals!
Chapter completed!