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| Where did the Phoenicians live? |
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| day Lebanon, in the Middle East |
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| What were the Phoenicians best known for? |
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| Why did they become sailors? |
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| They became sailors since they could not farm in their homeland, which made it hard to make a living for themselves. |
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| What types of goods did they trade? |
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| as purple dye cloth, timber, and colored glass. |
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| Their most valuable commodity (good) to trade was? |
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| What goods did they collect for other countries? |
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| They collected goods such as olive oil and wine from other countries in order to trade them as well. |
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| Why were they called Middlemen? |
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they traded goods for other
countries. |
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| What was the purple dye made of? |
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| how many snails to dye one robe? |
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| Where did the Phoenicians establish trade routes? |
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| throughout the Mediterranean sea. |
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| What tools did they use to navigate? |
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landmarks, seamarks,
and the stars. |
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| What countries did they trade with? |
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| Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal. |
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| What was an important contribution they made to modern-day society? |
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| The alphabet was an important contribution, it brought their language to the countries they traded with. |
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| Phoenicians told stories about sea monsters in order to, |
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| to scare the Greeks and other rivals away from their sea. |
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| What was one of the sea monsters they spoke of when telling stories? |
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Hippocampus. (A trick to remember, the
hippocampus is a part of your brain!) |
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