What did the Phoenician people derive their name from?

Answer 1

The color purple - the name was given to them by the Greeks after the purple dye made from shellfish which they exported.

From the Greek word for a shellfish which produced blue dye, for which the city of Tyre was famous.

Answer 2

the name phoenician means, "bloodred people". im not so sure what bloodred people means, but at least i was able to answer your first question. maybe it means that they shed a ton of blood. as in war.

Answer 3

They were a Semitic people who moved west through the Middle East and settled in the Levant, subsequently becoming seafarers and establishing a trading empire around the Mediterranean and as far afield as the Canary Islands and Cornwall.

Answer 4

This is uncertain - they migrated from the east - the area of Persia, as did other Semitic peoples. Their earlier location is unknown.

Answer 5

From the Greek word for the colour purple, reflecting the Greeks' appreciation of the purple dye which the Phoenicians traded.

Answer 6

Purple people

Answer 7

The color Purple