Phoenicia

The Phoenicians helped spread civilization throughout the Mediterranean area by

• using ships to trade goods with other peoples.
• Traveling by caravan across the lands westward .
• conquering all the lands west of the Persian Gulf.
• controlling the supply of a valuable purple dye.

Phoenicians were able to control trade throughout the Mediterranean __________. 

• by telling stories of monsters that lived in the deep water.
•  by bribing other kings.
• by having warriors on their ships.
• by refusing to trade their purple dye. 

The Phoenician ____ was a writing system made up of 22 symbols, each symbol representing a sound of the language. 

• alphabet 
• scribes
• cuneiform
• city - state 

Where did the Phoenicians get the purple dye from?

• Barney
• sea shell
• snails
• America

How did the Phoenician alphabet spread throughout the ancient world?

• telegram
• sea trade
• caravan
• oral traditions

Why was the purple dye so valuable?

• Phoenicians were the only people that had it
• Only rich people could wear purple
• It was a crime to kill snails
• snails are an endangered species

Which people were a great sea power?

• Phoenicians
• Mediterraneans
• Assyrians
• Sumerians

Why did Phoenicia become a thriving and wealthy region?

•   Phoenicia controlled access to the cities of Sumer. 
• Phoenicians sold valuable wood and dyed cloth to neighboring peoples.
• Gold was discovered near the city of Tyre.
• The warlike Phoenicians conquered their neighbors. 

. The Phoenician alphabet made it easier for people in the ancient world to __________.

• hire scribes. 
•  teach cuneiform.
• learn cuneiform.
• learn to read and write.

Phoenicia was located ____________. 

•  on the island of Crete, in the Mediterranean.
• between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.
• close to the Persian Gulf.
• on the west coast of the Fertile Crescent.