Snails eventually die if their is salt near them. You cant kill a snail by pouring salt on them or but just killing them hardly. (stepping on them).
The snails made a rich purple dye, which was used for clothing
Tyrian purple
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Murex snails are no longer used as dyes because this use led to over harvesting and near extinction of the species. A synthetic dye that is close to the original color of the snail dye is now used instead.
The phonecians created purple dye using snails. It was hard and ectreamly expensive - hence purple being related to royality.
It was extracted from sea snails! I hope this helped!
60,000. It says in my textbook.
They found snails that produced purple dye, and they sold it. They also had large cedar forests, and dyed the cedar logs with the purple dye that they got from the snails. They sold both things, many times successfully, and that's how they gained their wealth and power.
Pine trees for timber, purple dye frim sea snails, food grains.
The Phoenicians made purple dye from them, and the name Phoenicia comes from the Greek word for the colour.
the answer is........... False
They found snails that produced purple dye, and they sold it. They also had large cedar forests, and dyed the cedar logs with the purple dye that they got from the snails. They sold both things, many times successfully, and that's how they gained their wealth and power.