The Phoenicians

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Across
  1. 1. following egyptian customs, these are where the dead are preserved after being embalmed and wrapped in linen
  2. 4. agreements that had provided free shipments of goods and in return, gave the phoenicians independence
  3. 5. a form of picture writing with twenty-two letters the phoenicians had made as an offshoot of egyptian hieroglyphs (two words)
  4. 6. a famous phoenician city that was founded in 814 bc by dido, a phoenician princess
  5. 8. a second group of phoenician people who came from the eastern mediterranean near greece, they were shipbuilders and traders
  6. 12. urns that phoenicians used to bury their dead (two words)
  7. 14. a chamber in the temples that the phoenicians built where images of gods were kept and wine, perfume, animals, and humans sacrifices were made (three words)
Down
  1. 1. a group of phoenician people who had come from the desert south and east of canaan, they were also herders
  2. 2. wanted to marry his girlfriend and provided the gown to do so, was the founder of the dye-making trade in phoenicia
  3. 3. a phoenician princess who was overthrown in tunisia and first founded the city before being overthrown by her brother
  4. 7. an expensive dye used in trading, named after the city of tyre (three words)
  5. 9. refused to marry her boyfriend unless a gown made out of purple dye was made for her
  6. 10. a trading route that provided the phoenicians with hides
  7. 11. permanent settlements built by phoenicians that had turned into permanent cities
  8. 13. the first city ruled by dido, a dye was named after it