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Social Studies
Phonecians
Question | Answer |
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The land bridge that connected Egypt and Mesopotamia. It is now know as Lebanon and Israel. | Canaan |
The people that lived in the Northern part of Canaan. | Phonecians |
One of two groups of Phoenicians. They were herders who wandered from pasture to pasture. They came from the desert South and East of Canaan. | Canaanites |
One of two groups of Phoenicians. they were traders and shipbuilders. They came form eastern Mediterranean near Greece. | Philistines |
Agreements between states in which promised to supply free shipments of goods in exchange for Phoenician Independence. | Treaties |
The largest of the Phoenician city states. A famous cloth dying center. | Tyre |
An independents city-state named for the large amount of papyrus it exported. | Byblos |
A phonecian city state that later became the capital of Lebanon. | Beirut |
A most sacred chamber in the temple where the image or sacred stone of the God kept. | Holy of the Holies |
Clay ornamental vases where Phoenicians buried their dead. | Urns |
Permanent settlements the Phoenicians set up on the coast of North Africa. | Colonies |
A settlement of the Phoenicians founded by Dido and her followers. it was located on the coast of Africa. It became a Mediterranean power, a great trading city. | Carthage |
The greatest contributor of the Phoenician civilization. Established to make trade transactions easier to record spread to other civilization because of Phoenician contract through trading. Most western alphabets are based upon the Phoenician alphabet. | The Phoenician Alphabet |