Canaanite city-states

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ancient political entity city-state network

The Canaanite city-states were a network of independent, urbanized polities in the Levant that flourished as key centers of trade, culture, and religion in the ancient Near East.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient political entity ⓘ
city-state network ⓘ
archaeologicalEvidenceIncludes alphabetic inscriptions ⓘ
city walls ⓘ
cuneiform tablets ⓘ
palaces ⓘ
temples ⓘ
characterizedBy fortified urban centers ⓘ
independent governance ⓘ
palace-temple complexes ⓘ
urbanization ⓘ
conflictedWith Egyptian New Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sea Peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ
declineAssociatedWith Late Bronze Age collapse NERFINISHED ⓘ
economyBasedOn agriculture ⓘ
craft production ⓘ
long-distance trade ⓘ
flourishedInPeriod Bronze Age ⓘ
Early Iron Age ⓘ
governedBy dynastic elites ⓘ
local kings ⓘ
hadCulturalInfluenceOn Levantine religion ⓘ
Phoenician city-states ⓘ
ancient Israelite culture ⓘ
includedCity Byblos NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hazor NERFINISHED ⓘ
Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lachish NERFINISHED ⓘ
Megiddo NERFINISHED ⓘ
Shechem NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sidon NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tyre NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ugarit NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFromSource Amarna letters NERFINISHED ⓘ
Egyptian inscriptions ⓘ
Ugaritic texts ⓘ
archaeological excavations ⓘ
locatedIn Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ
ancient Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ
pantheonIncludesDeity Anat NERFINISHED ⓘ
Asherah NERFINISHED ⓘ
Astarte NERFINISHED ⓘ
Baal NERFINISHED ⓘ
El NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Canaan NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalStructure independent city-kingdoms ⓘ
loosely connected polities ⓘ
religion Canaanite religion NERFINISHED ⓘ
socialStructure craft specialists ⓘ
dependent peasants ⓘ
hierarchical society ⓘ
royal bureaucracy ⓘ
tradedWith Aegean civilizations NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Egyptian New Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hittite Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mesopotamian polities ⓘ
usedLanguage Canaanite languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Northwest Semitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedScript cuneiform ⓘ
early alphabetic scripts ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Late Bronze Age collapse → affectedCivilization → Canaanite city-states ⓘ
ancient trade route Via Maris → associatedWith → Canaanite city-states ⓘ
subject surface form: Via Maris
Battle of Megiddo (15th century BCE) → opposingAlliance → Canaanite city-states ⓘ