Phoenicians FELGERC - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 20
About This Presentation
Title:

Phoenicians FELGERC

Description:

Music. Dance. Religious themes. IV. Government ... Had an entrance hall, main hall, and a 'holy of holies' sacred chamber. Sacrifices ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:572
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 21
Provided by: MeganT3
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Phoenicians FELGERC


1
Phoenicians FELGERC
2
I. Family
  • Where they lived Northern Canaan

3
Groups that formed the Phoenician people
  • Canaanites (herders)
  • Philistines (traders and ship builders)

4
II. Education
  • Business
  • Trade
  • Sailing

5
III. Leisure
  • Art
  • Pottery
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Religious themes

6
IV. Government
  • City-States Phoenicia was a collection of
    independent city-states
  • Tyre, Byblos, Beirut, Sidon

7
Characteristics of City-States
  • Spoke the same language
  • Practiced the same religion
  • Rivals in trade

8
Government
  • At first, city-states were ruled by priest-kings
  • Later, they were ruled by councils of merchants

9
Government
  • Colonies permanent settlements in other areas
    built by sailors and traders
  • Carthage powerful Phoenician trading colony

10
V. Economics
  • Phoenicians used the sea to make a living

11
Characteristics of Trade
  • Exchanged cedar logs, cloth, glass, and perfume
    for gold and precious metals
  • Started as coastal traders
  • Eventually traveled and controlled Mediterranean
    trade

12
Economics (cont.)
  • The Phoenicians used treaties to make agreements
    for trade and keep peace with larger, more
    powerful neighbors

13
Cloth-dyeing
  • Phoenician cities were cloth-dyeing centers
  • Made expensive purple dye
  • Phoenicians of purple merchants

14
VI. Religion
  • Phoenician gods were closely tied to nature
  • Worshipped on hills, under trees, and finally, in
    temples

15
Temples
  • Had an entrance hall, main hall, and a holy of
    holies sacred chamber

16
Sacrifices
  • Wine, perfume, animals, humans
  • Made at a stone altar in the temple
  • Only priests could sacrifice
  • Strengthened the power of the gods

17
Religion (cont.)
  • Believed in an afterlife
  • At first, buried the dead in urns
  • Later, used embalming with burial on hillsides in
    stone coffins

18
VII. Communication and Transportation
  • Phoenician Sailors and Explorers plotted courses
    by the sun and stars
  • Traveled to places where others wouldnt
  • Brought Middle Eastern culture to other places

19
Alphabet
  • Didnt invent, but passed on
  • Borrowed a mix of hieroglyphs mixed with
    Canaanite writing

20
Characteristics of the Phoenician Alphabet
  • 22 symbols
  • Helped Phoenician traders keep records
  • Borrowed by Greeks and Romans
  • Western alphabets were based on it
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com