Period 8 Phoenician Presentation

How many snails = 1 gram of purple

• 1,000

• 10,000

• 50

What is the name of the city the snails are from

• Byblos

• Tyre

• Carthage

what did the ancient Egyptians call the boat that could travel in the deep seas?

• a. Byblos boat

• b.  phoenician boat

• c. babylos boat

How many letters are there in the Phonecian Alphabet?

• 14

• 32

• 26

• 22

Draw a picture of a cat on a unicycle.

Why was the alphabet of the Phoenicians unique?

• It was the first alphabet to use letters.

• It was the first where one letter = a sound

• It was easily copied on paper.

Who was Queen Dido fleeing from

• Pygmalion of Lebanon

• Julius Caesar 

• Genghis Khan

• Alexander the Great

The Carthaginian government was a 

• Meritocracy

• Monarchy 

• Democratic republic

• Aristocracy

What did the colonies help facilitiate?

 

• A: trade of goods

• B: cooking

• C: mining of materials