Phoenician Review

Phoenician Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe how Phoenicians organized:
Phoenicians organized by city states.

Describe the Phoenician shipbuilding and travel achievements:
They were very successful as sea traders, trading wood, wine, ivory tusks, and even their own ships they built.

Describe the settlement of:
Phoenicia, the kingdom that arose in Canaan with capitals at Tyre and Sidon, was the first great colonizing power of the Mediterranean. Leveraging their superior seafaring skills--which some say were learned from Crete--the Phoenicians by about 1200 BC were trading at coastal towns across the whole Mediterranean. Distant Spain proved to be a particularly lucrative destination.

How did the settlement of Phoenician lands effect trade:

Describe the Phoenician Alphabet and how it spread