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Epic card · History
Phoenicia, an Epic card
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in present-day Lebanon.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 890,000
Ranked #558 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Phoenicia quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Phoenicia card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Their ______ civilization expanded and contracted over time, with its cultural core stretching from Arwad to Mount Carmel.
Answer
maritime. Their maritime civilization expanded and contracted over time, with its cultural core stretching from Arwad to Mount Carmel. From the Phoenicia article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bryan Adams. Bryan Adams 97 · Bertrand Russell 94 · Phoenicia 87 · Battle of the Alamo 83 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Their maritime civilization expanded and contracted over time, with its cultural core stretching from Arwad to Mount Carmel.
- Through trade and colonization, the Phoenicians extended their influence across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Maghreb and Iberian Peninsula, leaving behind thousands of inscriptions.
- The Phoenicians emerged directly from the Bronze Age Canaanites, and their cultural traditions survived the Late Bronze Age collapse, continuing into the Iron Age with little interruption.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Phoenicia article was read about 890,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Phoenicia
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Phoenicia (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kordas , based on Alvaro 's work, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
