Lebanon
The amount of years it has been since Lebanon's founding
What is 7,000 years?
Nickname for the Phoenicians
What is purple people?
The reason trade benefitted the Phoenician people
Two countries on a peninsula
What are Italy and Greece?
The origin of the word Bible
What is the Greek word “byblinos”?
The sea that borders Lebanon
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
From where purple dye came
What are murex snails?
The reason the Phoenicians became sailors instead of farmers
What is a lack of farming land?
The reason Tyrian purple so desireable
What is an expensive display of wealth and power?
The medical practice used by the Phoenicians evidence by skull findings
What is dentistry? What are braces?
The official language of present day Lebanon
What is Arabic?
Most important Phoenician navigation tools
What are landmarks and stars?
The reason the Phoenicians developed the alphabet and the amount of letters that were in it
What is a faster way to record purchases and sales? What is 22 letters?
An invention made by the Phoenicians that they shared and taught to everyone they met
What is the first writted alphabet?
The large animals rasied on Phoenician farms
What are elephants?
Capital city and population of Lebanon
What is Beirut with 2 million people?
The coast where Phoenicians had trade routes
What is the coast of North America?
The three main cities of Phoenicia
What are Byblos, Sidon, Tyre?
The amount of days it took for Gabor Rakonczay's boat to capsize
What us 26 days?
The far corners of the Mediterranean colonized by the Phoenicians
What are the island of Cyprus in the east to Spain and Gibraltar (including red.” the outer Atlantic coast) and North Africa in the west?
The countries with with Lebanon has border disputes
What are Israel and Syria?
Natural resource used to make glass
What is sand?
A resource the Phoencians sought out because they didn't have it in their country
What is silver?
The type of paper used by the Phoenicians
What is papyrus?
The first known explorer to reach the northwestern shores of Europe in the sixth century BC
Who is Himilco?