The phoenicians built their empire around what skill? what did this lead to for their empire?

creativeness and power and their empire grew and sucseded but eventualy fell

Hey there! The Phoenician's skill was creativeness and power and this lead to accomplish, but then to fall.

so they can defeat there oppenent

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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