The only functioning large-scale Odonian syndic, after all the promise of the early valley. It provides immense value to dispossessed peoples across our world. Of course the propertarians wish to discredit and destroy it!
That’s one hypothesis for one component of the Sea Peoples. Like all the hypotheses, it’s very weakly evidenced - iirc correctly (from Eric Cline), in this case, there’s a possible philological link with the Egyptian exonym ‘Sherden’ and one possible representation of a nurhag.
In some sense it never died. Lebanese people are largely their descendants, and their diaspora is extremely mercantile. Tyre is yet inhabited, as are many of the ancient metropoles of Phoenicia.
Hundreds of years! A feat for a nation only 250 years old. Particularly considering the panic about Chinese immigration - the first real anti-China event in US history - dates to the latter half of the 1800s.
Also, the “yellow” in “yellow journalism” != the slur “yellow” as in “yellow peril.”
And finally, your conclusion - “[Americans] are ready to accept anything to stop the ‘bad guys’” - would still be a parochial ignorance, as well as ironically biased, even were it not so shakily premised.
You perhaps overestimate the utility of writing outside urban civilization - and underestimate the immense difficulty of its invention. Not only is symbolic thought required, but so too a cultural substrate which can find use for, agree upon, and preserve written works. One man may invent the wheel; only a people can invent writing.
