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Phoenicia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a body of water the Phoenicians sailed; not as big as an ocean, but still a large sea | Mediterranean |
| invented by the Phoenicians to make record keeping easier | alphabet |
| a kind of tree that Phoenicians used to build their boats | cedar |
| a country that borders Lebanon to the south; the setting for many of the events recorded in the Bible | Israel |
| a Phoenician explorer who may have circumnavigated (sailed or traveled around) Africa | Hanno |
| the color of dye the Phoenicians were famous for making | purple |
| the country the Phoenicians sailed to for tin (a metal needed for the making of bronze) | Great Britain |
| a resource that Egypt and Mesopotamia were lacking (didn't have very much of) | wood |
| capital city of the country of Lebanon | Beirut |
| Phoenician city that was a center of bookmaking | Byblos |