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So around 9000 that's 9 thousand years ago on a Mediterranean island first traders, agriculturist, farmers, builders lived.

They worked the land examining fertility of soil to see what they could grow. Developed a way to clothe themselves and dye materials. They had a sense of a creator. We know from later on in mankind's history that missionary projects discovered tribes who had not heard the gospels. However had some kind of story about faith they knew.

These Phoenicians came from cannnite places across what we call the holy land. There was a sense of belonging plus gatherings. Temples where built .Afterlife was a thought plus process that was part of these tribes sojourners.

First temples ,places to worship another being,God. These where built by a race of people who had an understanding of something bigger, better that affected how they lived with other's.

Effected how they lived together in community.