Chapter 6 (pages 101-106)
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| When did the phoenicians civilization begin? | About 1830 BC
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| What is Canaan? | It is between Egypt and Mesopotamia. It is the land area of Lebanon and Israel today.
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| What are Canaanites? | Herders from south and east of Canaan.
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| What are philistines? | Traders and shipbuilders from near Greece.
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| What did the Phoenicians build along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea? | Towns and cities
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| Why couldn't they grow food for their people? | There wasn't enough land
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| What did cedar forests (Lebanon) provide? | Wood for ships
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| Where did they trade? | Along the coast
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| What were ships? | Traveling workshops
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| What was explored? | Unexplored areas
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| What did they spread? | Middle Eastern culture
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| What are treaties? | Agreements/bets that were made
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| Who did they make peace treaties with? | Amongst their states and countries
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| What did Phoenicia ship? | Free goods
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| What would other countries guarantee when Phoenicia would ship the stuff? | Phoenicia's independence
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| What did they trade? | Cedar logs, cloth, glass trinkets, and perfume for gold and other metals
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| Why didn't Phoenicia ever become united? | Separated by mountains-only contact was through narrow mountain passes and by sea
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| Were they independent cities? If so, would people be loyal to their own city-state? | Yes;yes
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| Why did they become competitors? | For profits and trade
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| What did they find purple dye for? | Cloth
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| What does Phoenician mean? | Of purple merchants (shellfish-murex)
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| Were many gods closely tied to nature? | Yes
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| What did gods/goddesses do? | Build temples-holy of holies=most sacred chamber held images or sacred stone of their god
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| Did they believe in life after death? | Yes-cremations-urns (vases that held ashes of dead person) then embalmed and mummies like Egypt
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| What is a colony? | Permanent settlement
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| What is Carthage? | North coast of Africa-today Tunis in Tunisia; it became a major training power in the Mediterranean.
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| What was Phoenicia's most important contribution? | The alphabet
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| How did then come up with some of the symbols? | Borrowed simple form of Egyptian hieroglyphs; from Canaanites-22 symbols-no vowels
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| How do you read? | Left to right
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| Where did the alphabet go from? | Phoenicia to Europe
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| What is also based on the alphabet? | Greeks, Romans, most western alphabets including English
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| What did Phoenicia give each letter? | A name
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