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The Phoenicians The Phoenicians were a very intelligent culture they developed the alphabet, they were excellent ship builders, they also traded with many other cultures such as the Greek (which is where cultural diffusion took place and the Greeks adopted the alphabet but added the important vowels the Phoenicians left out. The Phoenicians also spoke a dialect and used coin money. The Phoenicians were very good wood and metal workers. They made and used furniture, metal work, and especially glassware. The Phoenicians were also well known for their purple dye known as “Tyrian Purple.” They had an excellent navy and used the stars to navigate. They controlled many city-states and eventually sailed North to Spain, Ireland, and England. There was a huge demand for metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, and nickel. They would also phoenicians, very, north, excellent, through, though, things, purple, phoenician, navy, metal, known, east, because, alphabet, workers, work, wood, west, vowels, various, united, tyrian, tripoli, traded, took, today, tin, strongest, stars, spoken, spoke, spain, south, softened