1. Seafaring Traders
CHAPTER 3
SECTION 3

3. Minoans Trade in The Mediterranean
Minoans-powerful seafaring people
Aegean Sea-surrounds island of Crete = great sailors
Exported art and culture
Had influence on Greece
Architecture, burial customs, religious rituals

4. Unearthing Brilliant Civilization
Knossos-Minoan capital city
Peaceful, no fortifications
Advanced and thriving culture
King Minos-was king who owned a half human half bull Minotaur

5. Unearthing a Brilliant Civlization
Knossos had painted walls
Official seals
vases
Athletic people
Boxing
Wrestling
Bull leaping
Women held a high rank

6. Unearthing a Brilliant civilization
Mother goddess rule over all gods
Priestess took charge of some shrines
Sacrificed bulls and animals
Carried out human sacrifices

7. Minoans Culture’s Mysterious End
Ended 1200 BC
1700 BC earthquake destroys Minoan cities
1470 BC earthquakes rock Crete
Tidal waves
Rain of ash
Fiery volcanic blast
Invaders from Greece take over

8. Phoenicians Spread Civilization
powerful traders along the Mediterranean
Mainly now in Lebanon
Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon trading centers
Write on papyrus
Simplified alphabet

9. Ancient Trade Routes Mediterranean and world trading centers
30 miles apart
Land routes
Afghanistan
India
Persia
Gulf of the Red Sea
Used monsoon winds to cross Arabian sea

11. Phoenicia's Greatest Legacy
record transactions
symbols represented sounds
Alphabet comes from two letters alpha and beta
Greeks adopted it and changed some of the letters