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Phoenicia and it’s Colonies

Phoenicia and it’s Colonies. Kara Jacobson. Located in what is now Greece, Israel, and Tunisia Flourished from 1550 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E. Location. Phoenicia was a kingship- power was limited by the powerful merchant class The king was advised by a council of elders

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Phoenicia and it’s Colonies

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  1. Phoenicia and it’s Colonies Kara Jacobson

  2. Located in what is now Greece, Israel, and Tunisia • Flourished from 1550 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E. Location

  3. Phoenicia was a kingship- power was limited by the powerful merchant class • The king was advised by a council of elders • The throne was inherited and rulers were religious figures in their city-states Administrative Institutions

  4. Diplomacy: The Phoenicians had many people who traded abroad, and represented the country. They managed very well through trading. • Their supply line went all over the Mediterranean Sea. Projection of Military Power

  5. Traded by land and by sea • Needed trade to survive; they were a trading people. • Money was minted by individual cities;copper was a pre-monatary currency Trade

  6. Tyre- trade center • Caesarea- Once a port • Kings were religious leaders Role of Cities in the Empire

  7. Slavery- if a POW’s home country refused to get them back, they may be sold into slavery. • The corvée system existed under the Persians Social Hierarchy and Mechanics for Preservation

  8. Women had some freedoms, such as being able to divorce, bring issues to court, and sell and trade goods • However, men still had some power. Most women were subject to lower jobs or (for priestesses) prostitution. • Women were considered lower than men. Patriarchy

  9. The fall of Tyre began the Phoenician empire’s fall- Alexander the Great’s invasion ended the fall, and collapsed the entire empire. Collapse

  10. Handy, Lowell K. The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium. New York: Brill, 1997. • Khalaf, Salim George. Phoenician Encyclopedia. September 1996. 6 September 2011. • Remler, Pat. The Ancient Phoenicians . n.d. 10 September 2011 <http://www.10452lccc.com/hist.geo/ancientphoenicians.htm>. • Strong, David B. The Phonecian Hypothesis. 1 February 2009. 6 September 2011. Works Cited

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