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What did the Phoenician alphabet and the trade have in common?
Each had its role in building up the Phoenician trading empire.
Name for four island colony ports in the Phoenician trading empire?
Kition (Cyprus) Olbia (Sardinia) Lilybaeaum (Sicily) Maleth (Malta) Calpe (Gibraltar)
What is the Phoenician Triangle?
The trading area in the Mediterranean Sea which the Phoenicians dominated.
What is a Phoenician trading bazaar?
The Phoenicians located in Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia spread their trading reach around the Mediterranean and Black Seas and to Babylon. They established markets in cities to trade goods. The word 'bazaar' is not Phoenician, but is an effective description of these markets.
How did the use of the Phoenician alphabet spread?
Their trading ships took it with them and the local peoples took it up.
How did the Phoenician's establish their empire?
It was a trading empire.
What was so unique about the Phoenician's empire?
It was a trading empire.
Where was Phoenician trading empire?
Across the Mediterranean
What did the Phoenician alphabet and the trade have in common?
Each had its role in building up the Phoenician trading empire.
When was the Phoenician empire built?
It was a trading empire which grew during the First Millennium BCE.
What great trading empire dominated the Mediterranean from the Ugarit to Carthage?
The Phoenicians.
What was a Carthage?
A Phoenician city-state located in today's Tunisia which was the centre of a great trading empire.
What ancient civilization was at its height around 500 bc?
Persian Empire, Phoenician trading empire.
How long did the Phoenician empire last?
It's trading empire lasted the first half of the First Century BCE.
Who is the emperor of the Phoenician Empire?
There was no Phoenician Empire - the Phoenicians were established in a series of independent city-states.
Were the Phoenicians and Greeks friendly?
They accepted each other as trading prtners until Persia took the Phoenician city-states into its empire, and ised the Phoenician warships as a large part of its navy in attacking the Greek city-states.
What were the main achievements to the Phoenician?
Establishing a trading empire which benefited the Mediterranean area and inventing an alphabet which formed the basis of Greek, Roman and today's alphabets.
