Phoenician Traders
The Phoenicians were skilled seafarers and who lived on the eastern end of the
Mediterranean Sea.
Carthage
luxury
ships
cedar
Mediterranean
snails
colonies
rival
traded
dye
royalty
Tyrian
The city-states of Phoenicia were located on the eastern edge of the
___________ Sea. They had poor land for farming, but they did have
an abundance of ___________ trees, which they used for making
___________. These cedar trees were also a valuable good that they
___________ throughout the Mediterranean.
They also traded a purple ___________ that was made from marine
___________ found in the region. This color, which was named after
the Phoenician city of Tyre, became known as ___________ purple.
The dye was rare and expensive and so it was a ___________ good. It
became the color of ___________ in many places.
As the Phoenicians traded with people all over the Mediterranean, they
founded ___________, or settlements of Phoenicians abroad. One
colony they founded was the city of ___________. Located in the
western Mediterranean on the northern coast of Africa, Carthage became
a wealthy and powerful ___________ of Rome.