| A | B |
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| Confederation | A loose union of independent Phoenician city-states |
| Alphabet | Phoenician improvement to language |
| Colonies | Settlements of Phoenician emigrants |
| Barter | The system of transaction that the Lydians used before they set up a money/coin system |
| Syria | The location where the Aramaeans settles around 1200 B.C. |
| Damascus | The location, or place, where Aramaean kings set up their capital and provincial leaders challenged their authority |
| Tyre | One of Phoenicia's largest ports that became a city-state (ex. Others were Byblos, Sidon, and Berytus |
| Canaan | Location where the Phoenicians migrated to from the Arabian Peninsula about 3000 B.C, Today it is made up of Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan |
| Asia Minor | The Peninsula that juts westward between the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black Seas where the Lydians lived |
| The Aramaeans | One of the most active peoples of Middle East trade, controlled overland trade between Egypt and Mesopotamia |
| The Phoenicians | Settled in Canaan, developed an improved alphabet,the saiolors and traders of this civilization set up a network of post and colonies along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea |
| The Lydians | Used barter as a system of transaction beforw the came up with a coin/money system, lived in Asia Minor |
| Aramaic | The language that the majority of the people in the Fertile Crescent spoke until about the A.D. 800s |
