Who were The Phoenicians
The Phoenicians are know as
What is fearless sailors?
Phoenicians manufactured a number of goods
What is pottery and glass?
An import (bring in) is a goods (merchandise) or service sold within a country that is produced in
What is another country?
Because of Phoenicia’s location between the Mediterranean and the Lebanon Mountains, Phoenicians turned to
What is trade?
Cultural diffusion is
What is the spreading of cultural ideas from one region to another?
Phoenician society developed from the earlier
What is Canaanites?
Limited flat land for farming due to
What is mountains?
Most Phoenician imports were raw materials, including
What is gold, silver, tin, copper, iron, ivory, and precious stones?
They became experts at
What is navigation?
Phoenicians spread their alphabet through
What is trade?
The Phoenicians were sailors and
What is skilled traders?
Weavers created cloth that they colored with a rare purple dye made from
What is tiny sea snails?
An export is a
What is a good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country’s borders?
Sumerian wedge shaped writing is known as
What is cuneiform?
The Phoenician alphabet had
What is 22 letter?
Phoenician city-states were priest-kings who shared power with
What is leading merchant families and a citizen assembly?
Skilled Phoenician craftsworkers made pottery and glass and
What is metal objects?
Profit
What is the money left over after subtracting the cost of making and selling something from the money received?
Greeks learned it and added
What is vowels?
The Phoenicians sailed through the
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The color purple represented
What is royalty?
Profit from trade allowed their civilization to
What is to grow/expand?
This Colony became rich and powerful.
What is Carthage?
The Greeks also adopted the Phoenician way of
What is writing?