1. MINOANS AND PHOENICIANS Seafaring People

2. The Minoans and Phoenicians controlled the Mediterranean Sea: Lead to the spread of: 1. Goods 2. Ideas 3. 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: 1. Food 2. Fruits 3. Human hair 4. 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?