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Seafaring Traders Minoans and Phoenicians

Seafaring Traders Minoans and Phoenicians. Spreading Culture Beyond the Fertile Crescent. Powerful seafaring people Dominated trade in the Mediterranean 2000 BCE-1400 BCE Based on island of Crete Cities unfortified. Minoans. Minoan Culture. Knossos: Capital Advanced and thriving culture

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Seafaring Traders Minoans and Phoenicians

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  1. Seafaring TradersMinoans and Phoenicians Spreading Culture Beyond the Fertile Crescent

  2. Powerful seafaring people Dominated trade in the Mediterranean 2000 BCE-1400 BCE Based on island of Crete Cities unfortified Minoans

  3. Minoan Culture • Knossos: Capital • Advanced and thriving culture • King Minos • Colorful painted walls • Athletic people • Loved nature • Boxing, wrestling, bull jumping • Women • In religious ceremonies, priestesses • Mother Earth Goddess • Sacrifice • Bulls and other animals • Sometimes people

  4. Minoan’s Mysterious End • Natural disaster? Over population? Invasion? • Had previously withstood earthquakes • 1470 BCE earthquake and volcano • Didn’t rebuild • Lasted another 300 years • Invaders from Greece may have taken advantage of a weakened state

  5. The Phoenicians • Rose to power after Crete • Modern Lebanon • Founded a number of wealthy city-states: important trading centers • Shipbuilders/seafarers first to pass straights of Gibraltar • Africa?

  6. Commercial Outposts • Cities 30 miles apart • Sidon and Tyre: purple dye (murex snails) • Berytus and Byblos: Papyrus • Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain: Fish • Carthage (North Africa) • Trade Goods: wine, weapons, precious metals, ivory, and slaves

  7. Great Legacy: The Alphabet • Needed to record transactions quickly • Symbols represent sounds (Phonetic) • Aleph beth • Introduced writing to trade partners • Simplified writing made literacy more accessible • Assyrians captured Eastern cities and homeland controlled by the Babylonians alphabet stuck around

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