The Phoenicians

3. a good or service that a country buys from another country where it was produced
6. the name of the mountains that formed the eastern border of Phoenician civilization
8. the name of the ancient civilization that controlled the Canaanites from 1500 BCE to 1150 BCE.
12. the color of the dye made from tiny sea snails
13. a small set of letters or symbols, each standing for a single sound
14. an area ruled by a distant country and usually settled by people from that country

1. the spreading of cultural traits from one region to another: "cultural ______"
2. the civilization that adopted many aspects of Phoenician culture, including their standard of weights and measures and their alphabet
4. the name of the land where Phoenician society first developed
5. the name of the sea that Phoenicians traded along
7. a group of people organized for a purpose, usually political
9. to make a gain, usually of money or wealth
10. the art of steering a ship from place to place
11. a good or service made within a country and sold to another country