Chapter 11: Olive Oil
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Questions
1. Where does Olive Oil come from today?
2. Which two civilizations suffered a sudden decline in the early 12th century BCE?
3. What happened to the coastal cities between Egypt and Greece within 50 years?
4. What was this called?
5. When did these cities return?
6. Who failed to develop extensive trading networks?
7. What were the city-states of the Phoenicians?
8. Where is Canaan?
9. The phonetic alphabet, which used symbols to convey sounds rather than to depict individual words. True or False
10. The Greek alphabet developed from the Phoenician one with the addition of vowels and the Romans then adopted it to form the letters still widely used today. True or False
11. Where was Tyrian purple found?
12. When did the Phoenicians leave their homeland?
13. Where did the Phoenicians go after the Persians conquered Canaan?
14. When was the new Phoenician Empire in Carthage destroyed by Rome?
15. Who challenged the Roman Empire in the Punic Wars?
16. What is Monte Testaccio?
17. Were the Phoenicians merchants or farmers?
18. What as found in Ekron?
19. How much olive oil did Ekron produce in the ancient world?
20. Who was King Manasseh?
21. Who was King Sennacherib?
22. Manasseh was the son of whom?
23. Who led a revolt against the Assyrian Empire?
24. What was the tribute that King Manasseh had to pay King Sennacherib for rebelling against him?
Go to Answer Key
Go to Directory of Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Go to Directory of Articles & Books
Questions
1. Where does Olive Oil come from today?
2. Which two civilizations suffered a sudden decline in the early 12th century BCE?
3. What happened to the coastal cities between Egypt and Greece within 50 years?
4. What was this called?
5. When did these cities return?
6. Who failed to develop extensive trading networks?
7. What were the city-states of the Phoenicians?
8. Where is Canaan?
9. The phonetic alphabet, which used symbols to convey sounds rather than to depict individual words. True or False
10. The Greek alphabet developed from the Phoenician one with the addition of vowels and the Romans then adopted it to form the letters still widely used today. True or False
11. Where was Tyrian purple found?
12. When did the Phoenicians leave their homeland?
13. Where did the Phoenicians go after the Persians conquered Canaan?
14. When was the new Phoenician Empire in Carthage destroyed by Rome?
15. Who challenged the Roman Empire in the Punic Wars?
16. What is Monte Testaccio?
17. Were the Phoenicians merchants or farmers?
18. What as found in Ekron?
19. How much olive oil did Ekron produce in the ancient world?
20. Who was King Manasseh?
21. Who was King Sennacherib?
22. Manasseh was the son of whom?
23. Who led a revolt against the Assyrian Empire?
24. What was the tribute that King Manasseh had to pay King Sennacherib for rebelling against him?
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