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This ancient seafaring civilization is credited with creating the alphabet that became the basis for Greek, Latin, and most modern Western alphabets.
- Phoenicians
- Egyptians
- Babylonians
- Persians
This modern country contains the ancient Phoenician city-states of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos.
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Israel
- Turkey
This expensive purple dye, extracted from sea snails, made the Phoenicians wealthy and gave them their Greek name meaning "purple people."
- Tyrian purple
- Egyptian blue
- Persian red
- Carthaginian crimson
This Phoenician colony in North Africa became a major Mediterranean power and fought Rome in the Punic Wars.
- Alexandria
- Memphis
- Syracuse
- Carthage
The Phoenician civilization flourished along the eastern coast of this body of water.
- Red Sea
- Mediterranean Sea
- Persian Gulf
- Black Sea
This valuable tree, native to the mountains of their homeland, was a major Phoenician export used for shipbuilding and construction throughout the ancient world.
- Cedar
- Oak
- Olive
- Palm
The Phoenician alphabet was revolutionary because it used symbols to represent these, rather than whole words or syllables.
- Pictures
- Sounds
- Numbers
- Ideas
This Phoenician city, whose name means "rock" in Phoenician, was built partly on an island and was famous for resisting Alexander the Great's siege.
- Tyre
- Sidon
- Byblos
- Arwad
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