Why did Phoenician culture spread so far across Mesopotamia?

What parallelism is used in the following verse? for the lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. caesura cinquain synonymous synthetic contrasting

Germany italy and japan formed the tripartite pact in part because they: a. hoped to convince the united states to stay out of world war ii b. share the ruling philosophies based on communist economics c. resented the agreements they were forced to sign at the munich conference d. believed their territories were threatened by aggressive foreign states

Synthesizing new ideas from a speaker with what one already knows about the subject to see if the information makes sense is an example of a.questioning and challenging b.identifying differences c. forming a statement d.seeing the boader context