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