Seafaring Traders CHAPTER 3 SECTION 3 Minoans Trade
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Seafaring Traders CHAPTER 3 SECTION 3
Minoans Trade in The Mediterranean • Minoans-powerful seafaring people • Aegean Seasurrounds island of Crete = great sailors • Exported art and culture • Had influence on Greece – Architecture, burial customs, religious rituals
Unearthing Brilliant Civilization • Knossos-Minoan capital city • Peaceful, no fortifications • Advanced and thriving culture • King Minos-was king who owned a half human half bull Minotaur
Unearthing a Brilliant Civlization • Knossos had painted walls – – Official seals vases • Athletic people – Boxing – Wrestling – Bull leaping • Women held a high rank
Unearthing a Brilliant civilization Mother goddess rule over all gods Priestess took charge of some shrines Sacrificed bulls and animals Carried out human sacrifices
Minoans Culture’s Mysterious End • Ended 1200 BC • 1700 BC earthquake destroys Minoan cities • 1470 BC earthquakes rock Crete – – – Tidal waves Rain of ash Fiery volcanic blast • Invaders from Greece take over
Phoenicians Spread Civilization powerful traders along the Mediterranean Mainly now in Lebanon Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon trading centers Write on papyrus Simplified alphabet
Ancient Trade Routes Mediterranean and world trading centers 30 miles apart Land routes Afghanistan India Persia Gulf of the Red Sea Used monsoon winds to cross Arabian sea
Phoenicia's Greatest Legacy record transactions symbols represented sounds Alphabet comes from two letters alpha and beta Greeks adopted it and changed some of the letters
- Seafaring traders chapter 3 section 3
- Seafaring traders
- How did the minoans and phoenicians influence
- The rulers of the minoans were ________.
- Lived on the island of crete
- Minoans
- Minoans world
- Minoans vs mycenaeans
- Minoan vs mycenaean art
- After the mycenaeans defeated the minoans,
- Phoenicians competed with minoans for control of
- The minoans lived on the island of
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