1. The First Civilizations in the World
PHOENICIANS
INDUS RIVER VALLEY
CHINA
MESOPOTAMIA
NUBIA
EGYPT
The First Civilizations in the World

2. Political PHOENICIANS City-states in Phoenicia (modern- day Lebanon)
Set up trading colonies along the coast of the western Mediterranean and North Africa
Colony: a body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state

3. Seafarers
Known as excellent sailors and shipbuilders.

4. Trade Herodotus Book I, ''1-2
“The Phoenicians, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Persian Gulf, having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria. They landed at many places on the coast, and among the rest at Argos, which was then pre-eminent above all the states included now under the common name of Hellas. Here they exposed their merchandise, and traded with the natives for five or six days”

5. Trade Colonies Traded with Egypt by 1500 BCE
Dominated Mediterranea n Sea by 900 BCE

6. What Did They Produce? Cedar Trees Purple Dye Wool and Wine
Lack of natural food resources made the Phoenicians turn to trade for survival.

7. Purple Dye Phoenicians means “the land of purple” Dye called murex
Made from snail secretions
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9. Alphabet
First to develop a writing system where symbols stood for sounds that could be strung together to form words
Used to keep trade records

10. Phoenician to Greek Herodotus Book V, ''57-59
These Phoenicians … brought with them to Hellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. At this time the Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the Phoenicians, they used them with a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these characters the name of Phoenician.

11. What was unique about the Phoenicians?
Which civilization did the Phoenicians most closely resemble?
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