Ancient Phoenicia

Which of the following did the Phoenicians need to trade for because it was a resource they did NOT have in their own country?

• Silver
• Glassware
• Pottery 
• Cedar Timber

What fact about present day Lebanon BEST fits the web?

• Arabic is the official language
• famous for its large forests of cedar
• has many rivers and lakes
• has never had a civil war

What natural resource did the Phoenicians use to make glass?

• cedar trees 
• water
• sand
• rocks

The Phoenicians spread many stories of sea monsters to discourage which people from competing with them along their trade routes?

• Assyrians
• Greeks
• Egyptians 
• Babylonians

What were the Phoenicians most important tools for finding their way on trade voyages?

• compasses
• maps from earlier explorers
• landmarks and stars
• windsocks 

Historians believe that ancient Phoenicians established trade routes in all of the following areas except...

• along the coast of Europe
• along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
• Along the coast of Africa
• Along the coast of North America

Hanno is now believed to have possibly been the first to sell around the coast of Africa, but which explorer is usually given credit for this?

• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Marco Polo
• Vasco da Gama

The purple dye that the Phoenicians were famous for came from...

• juice from berries.
• liquid from spiral snails.
• a special kind of tree sap.
• ink form squids.

What did the Phoenicians share with other groups they met, which is important to us today?

• Stories and legends
• Maps and compasses
• Shipbuilding and sailing strategies
• the alphabet they had invented

Why did the Phoenicians become sailors and traders instead of farmers?

• there were no rivers for irrigation of crops
• there was not much land available for farming
• there was not enough rainfall for their crops
• they did not like farming