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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following did the Phoenicians need to trade for because it was a resource they did NOT have in their own country?SilverGlasswarePotteryCedar Timber
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What fact about present day Lebanon BEST fits the web?Arabic is the official languagefamous for its large forests of cedarhas many rivers and lakeshas never had a civil war - 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat natural resource did the Phoenicians use to make glass?cedar treeswatersandrocks
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe Phoenicians spread many stories of sea monsters to discourage which people from competing with them along their trade routes?AssyriansGreeksEgyptiansBabylonians
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat were the Phoenicians most important tools for finding their way on trade voyages?compassesmaps from earlier explorerslandmarks and starswindsocks
- 6. Multiple ChoiceHistorians believe that ancient Phoenicians established trade routes in all of the following areas except...along the coast of Europealong the coast of the Mediterranean SeaAlong the coast of AfricaAlong the coast of North America
- 7. Multiple ChoiceHanno is now believed to have possibly been the first to sell around the coast of Africa, but which explorer is usually given credit for this?Christopher ColumbusFerdinand MagellanMarco PoloVasco da Gama
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe purple dye that the Phoenicians were famous for came from...juice from berries.liquid from spiral snails.a special kind of tree sap.ink form squids.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the Phoenicians share with other groups they met, which is important to us today?Stories and legendsMaps and compassesShipbuilding and sailing strategiesthe alphabet they had invented
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhy did the Phoenicians become sailors and traders instead of farmers?there were no rivers for irrigation of cropsthere was not much land available for farmingthere was not enough rainfall for their cropsthey did not like farming
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