Phoenicia

Ancient Phoenicia was located next to the

• Red Sea

• Persian Gulf

• Mediterranean Sea

• Arabian Sea

Which of the following was NOT a Phoenician port city?

• Babylon

• Tyre

• Byblos

• Sidon

What was different about the Phoenician language compared to other languages at that time?

• First alphabetic language

• first pictograph based language

• nothing, it was just like cuneiform

• it still exists today exactly like it was then

On a map of modern day Asia where would I find where the ancient Phoenicians lived?

• Liberia

• Libya

• Iraq

• Lebanon

Why were the Phoenicians able to dominate trade?

• great sailors, shipbuilders, and navigators

• access to lots of natural resources in Phoenicia

• the trade they got overland from the Hittites

• they were wealthy enough

What is the name of the purple dye Phoenicians traded?

What is the name of the type of wood Phoenicans used to trade and build their ships out of?

Phoenicians were:

• polytheistic

• monotheistic

How were Phoenician city states governed?

• a central government in Phoenicia ruled them

• each city state had its own government

• they weren't

• one king traveled everywhere

Why did the Phoenicians want their writing system to be used by a wide range of people?

• to fill the gap left by the Bronze Age collapse

• to have it be used to keep track of trade throughout their empire

• to spread their religion

• to make it easier to educate everyone