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Minoans and Phoenicians

Minoans and Phoenicians . Seafaring People. Seafaring People. The Minoans and Phoenicians controlled the Mediterranean Sea: Lead to the spread of: Goods Ideas Culture Cultural Diffusion! . Cultural Diffusion: What relationship is there between trade and cultural diffusion?

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Minoans and Phoenicians

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  1. Minoans and Phoenicians Seafaring People

  2. Seafaring People • The Minoans and Phoenicians controlled the Mediterranean Sea: • Lead to the spread of: • Goods • Ideas • Culture Cultural Diffusion!

  3. Cultural Diffusion: What relationship is there between trade and cultural diffusion? • How do you think globalization today affects cultural diffusion in the United States?

  4. 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?

  5. Minoans – Polytheistic • Polytheistic – Believed in many Gods • Main God – Great Goddess, Mother Earth • Built Shrines and temples to honor the Gods • Gave offerings of: • Food • Fruits • Human hair • Flowers

  6. Phoenicians • Most powerful traders in the Med. Sea • City – States: Byblos, Tyre, Sidon – Major Trading Centers

  7. What Good Did They Trade? • Purple Dye from a snail • Papyrus • Wine • Weapons • Metals • Ivory • Wood

  8. Expanded The Empire • Phoenicians were unique in the fact that they expanded their civilization by creating colonies • Carthage – Coast of North Africa (Greatest Colony)

  9. What have we gotten from the Phoenicians?

  10. THE ALPHABET! • Alphabet – Symbols that represent sounds • Phonetic – One sound = One letter • What was the advantage over pictographs?

  11. Closure: • What do you think our world would be like today if the Phoenicians did not advance and expand their civilization?

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