1. The Phonecians

2. Snail Mail Snails on the coastal area of Tyre
Produced a rich, purple dye
Purple cloth-high cost; signified wealth
Dense cedar forests provided wood
B.C.:
Phonecia was a great sea power
Horrible monsters: Don’t trade!

3. Set Sail!

4. How Bazaar, How Bazaar! Trade: to Tyre and Sidon at bazaars
Foods: honey, figs, olives, spices
Exotic animals: giraffes and warthogs from Africa;
bears from Europe

5. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP!
Alphabet: set a symbols that represents the sounds of language
22 symbols
Easier than cuneiform
Made sea trade more efficient
“Where your wares came from the seas,
you satisfied many peoples. With your great wealth and
Merchandise, you enriched the kings of the earth”

6. The Israelites

7. Father Abraham Had Many Sons!
The Hebrews
Torah: the first five books of the Bible
Abraham: monotheism: belief in one god
Mono-Greek prefix for “one”
“And I will make of you a great nation”
Famine across the land of Canaan
Famine= a time when there is so little food
That many people starve
Went to Egypt

8. The Land of Milk and Honey
The Exodus; 40 years
Ten Commandments
Golden Calf
King David: capital in Jerusalem
After Solomon’s death: kingdom spilt into two
Northern kingdom was Israel
Southern kingdom was Judah

9. GET OUT! Exile: force people to live in another place or country
722 B.C. Israelites resisted Assyrian rule
Assyrians controlled Judah until 612 B.C.
Then the Assyrians were conquered by the Chaldeans
587 B.C.
Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the people of Judah to Babylonia