Unit 12: DIFFICULT WORDS

 

Phoenicians: Phœnicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

Carthaginians: the first civilization that developed within the city’s sphere of influence. It refers to a series of cities on the Gulf of Tunis, from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BCE to the current suburb outside Tunis, Tunisia.

Visigoths: the Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe; the Ostrogoths being the other. Together these tribes were among the barbarians who disturbed the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period.

Inhabitant: a person or animal that lives in a place.

Rural: connected with the country, not the town.

Urban: connected with a town or city.