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