Ch 12 Sec 2 Notes Phoenician Trading Phoenician

Ch. 12, Sec. 2 Notes – Phoenician Trading

Phoenician Sailing • By 1100 B. C. E. , Phoenicians begin charting new water routes to the Western Mediterranean • They were searching for new places to live, farm, and trade • Though we know very little about Phoenicia, most of what we know comes from artifacts, including shipwrecks

Phoenician Trade • Traded all over the Mediterranean Sea, even reaching as far as Britain • Rare wood, ivory, grain (Egypt), perfume (Israel), clay pots (Greece), glass, tin (Britain, Northern Europe)

Phoenicia conquered • Phoenician merchants controlled trade along the eastern Mediterranean from 1200 to 800 B. C. E. and became very wealthy • 800 s B. C. E. – Assyria conquered Phoenicia • 600 s B. C. E. – Assyria fell to Babylonia, who then eventually conquered Phoenicia (including Tyre, the capital!) • 332 B. C. E. – Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquers Tyre

Phoenicia sets up colonies • A colony is a territory or community that is controlled by a distant government. • Colonies provided valuable resources, acted as rest stops across the Mediterranean

Carthage, a Phoenician Colony • Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia, became the center of Phoenician life, after the fall of Tyre to Assyria • According to a Roman myth, Carthage was founded by a princess from Tyre named Dido during the 800 s B. C. E. • According to myth, local rulers in North Africa told Dido she could have as much land as she could cover with an ox hide, so she cut the hide into long strips that she used to surround an entire hill, which became Carthage