Phoenicia
FERTILE CRESCENT PROJECT
PHOENICIA
Miscellaneous
5 INTERESTING FACTS!!!
- The Greeks referred to them as Phoenicians, but what the Phoenicians actually called themselves is unknown
- The word "Phoenicia" means the "land of purple" because of their purple dye
- The rich were the only ones who could afford to buy the dyed fabric because the process used to remove the fluid from the dye was so difficult and expensive.
- Phoenicia invented numbers, which today looks like Roman Numerals
- Phoenician traded goods were valued extremely with other cultures
BiBliography
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"Phoenician Alphabet." Phoenician Alphabet. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2014.
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"Phoenician Money." Phoenician Money. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2014.
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"TimeMaps." Atlas of World History. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2014.