Consider what you have learned about the Phoenicians. what influence did their civilization have Carthage?

The Phoenicians were on of the most advanced civilizations in the antiquity. They were actually the civilization that brought lot of cultural elements into the European civilizations, introducing them to the alphabet in the process as well.

The homeland of the Phoenicians was on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, were Lebanon and Syria's Mediterranean coast is nowadays. They were constantly traveling and trading though, so they made their own colonies in numerous parts of the Mediterranean coastline, as well as influencing lot of people in meantime.

The most famous colony, later a city-state, of the Phoenicians was Carthage. Carthage was based on the Phoenician culture, and the majority of its population were Phoenicians. Carthage was a trading center, a well organized city, constantly developing, wealthy, pretty much a city that was envied by lot of other civilizations. It was totally destroyed though by the Romans after the Punic wars, and only fragments of the city can be found to witness for it.