MINOANS AND PHOENICIANS Seafaring People
The Minoans and Phoenicians controlled the Mediterranean Sea: Lead to the spread of: 1. Goods 2. Ideas 3. Culture Cultural Diffusion!
Cultural Diffusion: What relationship is there between trade and cultural diffusion? How do you think globalization today affects cultural diffusion in the United States?
Minoans: Lived on an island called Crete in the Aegean Sea Ship builders and traders Created pottery, swords, and other goods Farmed and Fished Mysterious End: Great Disaster? Invaded? Over-Populated?
Minoans – Polytheistic Polytheistic – Believed in many Gods Main God – Great Goddess, Mother Earth Built Shrines and temples to honor the Gods Gave offerings of: 1. Food 2. Fruits 3. Human hair 4. Flowers
Phoenicians Most powerful traders in the Med. Sea City – States: Byblos, Tyre, Sidon – Major Trading Centers
What Good Did They Trade? Purple Dye from a snail Papyrus Wine Weapons Metals Ivory Wood
Expanded The Empire Phoenicians were unique in the fact that they expanded their civilization by creating colonies Carthage – Coast of North Africa (Greatest Colony)
What have we gotten from the Phoenicians?
THE ALPHABET! Alphabet – Symbols that represent sounds Phonetic – One sound = One letter What was the advantage over pictographs?
Closure: What do you think our world would be like today if the Phoenicians did not advance and expand their civilization?