Wihat if Asssyria conquers/destroys Phoenicia?

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Asssyria conquers/destroys Phoenicia (12-10th Century BCE) Phoenicians are killed/enslaved/flee to their colonies, or are relocated to Bactria/Southern Mesopotamia/etc.

Greeks found a colony at the site of OTL Carthage in early 8th Century BCE.

Greeks take over/out-compete the Phoenician colonies (8th-6th Century BCE).

Etruria expands to the north 750-600 BCE

Latium becomes Hellenized 700 BCE

Etruria becomes Hellenized 600 BCE

The Black Sea, western, central and north eastern Med are Greek by mid 6th Century BCE.

Comments?
 
Rough start

Asssyria conquers/destroys Phoenicia (12-10th Century BCE) Phoenicians are killed/enslaved/flee to their colonies, or are relocated to Bactria/Southern Mesopotamia/etc.

Greeks found a colony at the site of OTL Carthage in early 8th Century BCE.

Greeks take over/out-compete the Phoenician colonies (8th-6th Century BCE).

Etruria expands to the north 750-600 BCE

Latium becomes Hellenized 700 BCE

Etruria becomes Hellenized 600 BCE

The Black Sea, western, central and north eastern Med are Greek by mid 6th Century BCE.

Comments?

Main problem is that Assyria was in eclipse between the 12th-10th centuries BC, along with the other major empires of the time (Egypt, Babylonia, etc.). Like those other empires, it was basically experiencing the fallout from the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations c. 1200 BC and was wracked by civil war and internal disputes. Thus it was not engaging in wars of conquest at the time. That is why all the small fry like the Phoenicians, Israelites, Philistines, Aramaeans, Neo-Hittites, etc. thrived during this time. So the whole POD really can't happen during this period without some major changes to the history prior to the 12th Century, and if we do that, the butterflies will probably eliminate the Phoenicians as we know them anyway.
 
Oh that should be 12th-9th Century BCE. I gave the range since Tiglath Pileser I or Ashurnasirpal II would be the best kings to do it.
 

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Yeah, I am not sure the Greeks would become such a major power without the Phoenicians. And, yes it was a troubled time 1200- 1000BCE, the Hittites were falling, Assyria, Babylon and Egypt all went through hard times, but there were one "power" that seemed to have played a large role in the Mediterranean at this time; the Sea People, a coalition of Indo- European pirates (greeks, phrygians etc.) that according to ancient sources seems to have been plundering everywhere. What if they could have played a major role in the downfall of Phoenician civilization?
 
The Greeks would be fine without the Phoenicians naval wise but without a sophisticated writing system, business and trade could be a problem.
 
Rough start

Assyria conquers/destroys Phoenicia (12-10th Century BCE) Phoenicians are killed/enslaved/flee to their colonies, or are relocated to Bactria/Southern Mesopotamia/etc.

That's not really Assyria's style, even if they were the inventors of the militarized state. Or any Near East state of that period. Anyway, remember Assyria did conquer Phoenicia in OTL, but around 700 BC. That helped Carthage to severe ties with the motherland but it did not result in genocide (a Roman invention, if I'm not wrong).

There is also a problem with the date, the sea peoples were striking at that time and they were probably unbeatable to most NE nations. The Hittites collapsed and Egypt itself was in deep troubles for a time. In fact, the sea peoples invasion helped Phoenicia to escape Egyptian domination/influence. If Assyria moves then in the region and fights the sea peoples, it would make sense to handle the Phoenicians as local allies instead of exterminating them.

Etruria expands to the north 750-600 BCE

Why? The north is still occupied by the same Barbarians of OTL. And taking into account your scenario this time there is not a Carthaginian alliance to proper them against their main competitors - exactly, the Greeks.
 
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