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What word for Carthaginian comes from the Latin for Phoenician?
Answer: Punic
Why: To the Romans, Carthaginians were simply Poeni, Phoenicians, so the Punic Wars were literally the Phoenician Wars.
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How was Carthage's war harbor shaped?
Answer: Circular
Why: An island in the middle of the round harbor held the admiral's headquarters, with a view over the port and the sea.
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From what older writing do Phoenician letters descend?
Answer: Egyptian hieroglyphs
Why: The link is Proto-Sinaitic, a script of about the 19th to 16th centuries BC that used Egyptian picture signs to write sounds.
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Which legendary queen founded Carthage?
Answer: Dido
Why: Her best-known telling is Virgil's Aeneid, from about 19 BC, nearly 800 years after Carthage's traditional founding.
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What does the name Carthage mean?
Answer: New City
Why: Carthage later gave the same name to a city in Spain, which Rome renamed New Carthage, literally 'New New City': today's Cartagena.
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Who sent Phoenicians around Africa, according to Herodotus?
Answer: Necho II
Why: The crew's report of the sun on their right while heading west round Africa fits a ship sailing south of the equator.
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