SPI

6.2.2 Identify major trade routes (i.e. Mediterranean Sea

6.2.1 Recognize an example of a barter economy

OBJECTIVE

The learner will be able to identify how Phoenicians used a barter economy and how the Mediterranean Sea helped their economy as measured by teacher observation, completion of concept map and TOD.

THE PHOENICIANS

GEOGRAPHY

Phoenicia was located between the eastern Mediterranean coast and the Lebanon Mountains

GOVERNMENT

Not a unified nation

Consisted of independent city-states

PHOENICIANS WERE SAILORS

Sailing No maps or modern

technology Sailed beyond Gibraltar

(Pillars of Hercules) Evidence that they may

have circumnavigated Africa

Phoenician Ship

PHOENICIAN COLONIES

Sailed and colonized throughout the Mediterranean beginning circa 1000 B.C.E.

Gades (Cadiz, Spain)

Carthage (Tunis, Tunisia) most important Phoenician colony. Located in northern Africa

TRADE

Leading sailors and traders of ancient world

Imports:

Gold, silver

Tin, copper, iron

Ivory

Precious stones

Exports:

Pine and cedar logs (there were many cedar forests in the area)

Wine, olive oil

Salt, fish

ALPHABETTHEIR GREATEST

ACHIEVEMENT

Carried their civilization and culture where they traded

Adopted and adapted Egyptian hieroglyphics into an alphabet off 22 symbols (letters) representing sounds

Mr. Hall’s Mail Call

Name ONE of the colonies started by the Phoenicians.

Name the most important achievement of the Phoenician civilization.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

1. They became expert traders.

2. Trade routes to the east were blocked by mountains and hostile neighbors.

3. They used the Mediterranean Sea and became expert sailors

4. They had an abundance of cedar, purple dye, silverwork, ivory carvings and slaves