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Wednesday , 9/8/10

Wednesday , 9/8/10. Turn in your Homework Reading questions to the basket Bell Ringer : What was the importance of Hammurabi’s Code and what did it tell us about society? Turn to pg. 72-76 in WH text and complete your Notes on Persia chart-Phoenicians. Phoenicians.

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Wednesday , 9/8/10

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  1. Wednesday, 9/8/10 • Turn in your Homework Reading questions to the basket • Bell Ringer: • What was the importance of Hammurabi’s Code and what did it tell us about society? Turn to pg. 72-76 in WH text and complete your Notes on Persia chart-Phoenicians

  2. Phoenicians City-states around Mediterranean Ship builders, sea traders Believed to be first to sail around Africa, through the Red Sea and the Straight of Gibraltar Greatest trading city was Carthage on Northern African coast

  3. Politics • Maintained as city-states, never united into a country • First cities in Phoenicia where Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon

  4. Economics • Seafaring traders • Ships • Pottery • Oils • Wine • Slaves • Cedar wood, aromatic, insect repellant, rot resistant • Bible tells of Kings David and Solomon building temples of cedar from Phoenicia

  5. Religion • Worshiped many gods- polytheism • pagans

  6. Social Structure • Social classes • Royalty, merchants, peasants, slaves • Focused on seaports • Supreme crafts people • Wood, metal, glass, ivory • Educators-shared alphabet with traders

  7. Intellectual/ Technology • Phoenician Alphabet • Red-purple dye produced from snails • Exported papyrus • Helped with the spread of cultural diffusion

  8. Arts/Culture • Decorated ships with sculptures of horse heads • Pagan god statuettes • Dyed clothing-royalty

  9. What Happened? • Assyrians captured eastern cities 842 B.C.E. • The Phoenician exiles set up camp in colonial cities on African coast-Carthage • Later taken over by Babylonians and Persians (King Cyrus I)

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