What kind of religion did Egypt have?

What was the name given to the kings of Egypt? What kind of power did they have?

What kind of class structure did Egyptian society have?

What is Egypt most famous for?

What was the written language of the Egyptians and what historical find allowed society to decipher it?

World History I SOL 3

Settled along the Mediterranean coast (part of Fertile Crescent in Southwest Asia).

Little fertile land

If the Phoenicians could not farm due to limited fertile land what do you think they had to do instead?

Originated in the 3rd

millennium BCE

Dominated the Mediterranean area between the 9th and 6th

centuries BCE.

Famous for being great sailors

Increased trade along rivers and by sea

“Carriers of Civilization” because they traded with so many people around the Mediterranean.

Why are they the “Carriers of Civilization” simply because they traded with many groups of people?

Famous for a purple dye which was made from glands of the Murex mollusk

It took as many as 250,000 mollusks to yield just one ounce of usable dye, but the result was a vibrant and long-lasting shade of purple.

Since it was difficult to make and time consuming what do you think happened to the color purple?

Purple became the official color of royalty. Because of its expense and rarity.

Traded precious metals, wine, olive oil, wool, perfume, pottery, and timber

Colony – a territory settled and ruled by people from another land

Phoenicians set up colonies all around the Mediterranean Sea (Aegean Sea, Italy, North Africa, and Spain)

Phoenician city of Carthage in North Africa became a major regional power!

Created the world’s first alphabet (symbols which represent sounds)

The alphabet was a quick, flexible way of recording business deals

Originally it only had 22 letters, Greeks later added the vowels.