Each phoenician citystate was a politically independent unit. Licensed to youtube by naxosofamerica on behalf of zan. Hatred flares up between the phoenicians and the greeks for the greeks in the aegean are a serious threat to. Here are some informative and useful books about the phoenicians and the history of phoenicia. Scholars agree that it was centered on the coastal areas of modern day lebanon and included parts of what are now northern israel and western syria. Chapter 2lesson 4hebrews, phoenicians, and lydians research use the following questions as prompts for your notes. The lydians, who made their home in western anatolia, arose in the seventh century b. Hebrews, phoenicians, and lydians crossword puzzle. They spoke a distinctive language that was known as lydian language. Read the summary to reveal how judaism became one of the first religions in the world to worship only one god. The phoenicians made an expensive purple dye that was in great demand. Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent citystates located along the coast of the mediterranean sea stretching through what is now syria, lebanon and northern israel. Nebuchadnezzar of babylon was also family, being another brotherinlaw. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is option c.
The project gutenberg ebook of history of phoenicia, by george rawlinson this. Tyre and sidon, and indeed the origin of the phoenician civilization generally, is lost, for neither excavations nor written. Describe how smaller civilizations, specifically the phoenicians and lydians, could exert their influence on the ancient world. The phoenicians and the lydians the phoenicians and the lydians mrs. They also created an alphabet and a calendar based on canaanite ideas. Descriptions of the phoenicians, continued primary source mentioned lay in a space not much bigger than a room which would conveniently hold ten beds. The ancient phoenicians have been credited with discovering everything from the pole star to the cornish cream tea, and there is no doubt that sailors, traders, and settlers from the narrow strip of coast below mount. Lydians lydians were the people who, together with the phrygians and other anatolian peoples, infiltrated anatolia after the decline. In fact, the name phoenician means of purple merchants. The individuality of the phoenicians was dwindling, and with the rise of greek naval and maritime power the importance of the phoenicians disappeared. By using book or the links given, find the required information and use it for your cornell notes. In the late iron age, the intensification in transactions of weighed silver, even if it was under. The phoenicians, however, as regards io, vary from the persian statements.
Browse phoenicians resources on teachers pay teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources. It is universally accepted today that the phoenicians were a nation which had settled on the mediterranean coast, along a narrow strip of land bordered by aradus to the north, mount lebanon to the east, and mount carmel to the south. And since the sea peoples were phoenicians, that must mean the lydianswere these phoenicians. Pdf the expression pillars of hercules, as well as scylla and charybdis were used by some authors to indicate unworldly, mythological places. Their major cities were tyre, sidon, byblos, and arwad. Like the phoenicians, the lydians made a major contribution to the people of the fertile crescent. Your child learned about the hebrews, phoenicians, and lydians. The phoenicians controlled their trade routes and ports until the persian empire, under cyrus the great, conquered the phoenician citystates in 539 bce. This activity was created by a quia web subscriber.
Miroff brookwood middle school the phoenicians phoenicia was located towards the lower half of the fertile. Citystates often came into conflict with others of its kind, or formed leagues and alliances. History of phoenicia by george rawlinson project gutenberg. Phoenicia had little land to farm and few natural resources. Table of content lydians hebrews phoenicians our project will consist of the culture and the civilization of the phoenicians, hebrews, and lydians. Phoenician merchants sailed throughout the mediterranean bringing lebanese cedar and tyrian purple. It is intended for the representation of text in palaeohebrew, archaic phoenician. Write the number of each name or term on the line provided. Learn phoenicians lydians history with free interactive flashcards.
After the decline of the egyptian civilization, phoenician citystates rose to power and became the dominant seafaring traders of the mediterranean sea. Pdf the phoenicians and the dangers inherent to sailing. Although the phoenicians and lydians never became large empires, their contributions to history continue to live on today. The city of major power, in north africa, eventually became a 1. Packet of 23 historical handouts that can be used as reference guides, articles, vocabulary or home resources. They also founded important colonies such as carthage. Bc to offer serious resistance to alexander the great, who took tyre only after a long and hard siege 333332 bc. So the nuragic sculpture is more evidence leading usto the phoenicians, not away from them. The phoenicians used the galley, a manpowered sailing vessel, and are credited with the invention of the bireme. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Choose from 344 different sets of phoenicians lydians history flashcards on quizlet. Phoenicians and lydians, loose union, different king, little fertile land, small and fragile, sails and oars, natural. Still more pressure was provided by the growth of local villas in size and substance as leading families competed to show their affluence. The phoenicians lose the battle but persian land forces gain a victory over the cypriotes.
This is the very first encounter at sea between phoenicians and greeks. Chapter 2lesson 4hebrews, phoenicians, and lydians. Phoenicians had no fertile ground, so they became b. The phoenicians and the west politics, colonies and trade second edition this is an updated and expanded version of maria eugenia aubets highly praised book, the phoenicians and the west. Phoenicians, hebrews, and lydians by kealani tanizaki. Phoenicians and lydians ancient history lecture slides docsity. The major contributions of the lydians include being the first people to use metallic coinage and establish permanent retail shops. As you read, underline important details in each section that relate to that sections title. The phoenicians and the lydians by matthew w on prezi.
The phoenicians originally lived in some part of india, whence driven out they migrated gradually westwards. A roman roads etext 4 hercules and the slavegirl of jardanus, having been entrusted by. Test your students general knowledge of phoenicia and the ancient world with this crossword. The phoenicians, the lydians and the alphabet history. The lydians lived in an area northwest of phoenicia in what is today the country of turkey. You will be tested on subjects such as their inventions and the definition of a. Pdf the concept of a lydian empire has been drawn from. The phoenicians were coastal traders, trading between their own citystates, and with the people in nearby egypt and. The ionian cities were connected by inland routes to phrygia and lydia until.
The civilization of assyria, babylonia, egypt, greece and other ancient countries owed its origin to the union of the civilization of the aryans with that of the phoenicians. Same for cyrus defeat of the lydians, since astyages wife was the sister of king croesus of lydia. As a result, these homes began to compete with the oncedominant trading houses as symbols of power. Ethnic origin, language and literature of the phoenicians. Through trade, they linked various parts of the ancient world. Phoenicians modeled their civilizations and borrowed ideas from whom. The phoenicians, i will suggest in this book, constitute just such a case. The phoenicians were a great maritime people, known for their mighty ships adorned with horses heads in honor of their god of the sea, yamm, the brother of mot, the god of death. Their coins were made of gold and silver and shaped like kidney beans. Describe how smaller civilizations specifically the. Lydia made major contributions to life around the mediterranean, especially in commerce.
All were fiercely independent, rival cities and, unlike the neighboring inland states, the phoenicians represented a confederation of maritime traders rather than a defined country. If you add all the resulting information to your notes, you will have extracted all the most important information from this lesson. New ideas as well as goods were exchanged through trade. This brief powerpoint covers the basics of the phoenicians and lydians, barter economy, and the first coined money. According to legend, a phoenician god named chapter 6 the phoenicians and the hebrews reading check how did the phoenicians use treaties to keep the peace. And i remarked that they severally lay in a way that they did not obstruct one another, and did not require anyone to search for them. The following quiz and worksheet combo will display your knowledge of the phoenicians. The lydians known as sparda to the achaemenids, old persian cuneiform were an anatolian people living in lydia, a region in western anatolia, who spoke the distinctive lydian language, an indoeuropean language of the anatolian group questions raised regarding their origins, as defined by the language and reaching well into the 2nd millennium bc, continue to be debated by. Like the phoenicians, the lydians became known for trading. What the phoenicians actually called themselves is unknown, though it may have been the ancient term canaanite. The phoenicians and the lydians ancient cultures all over southwestern asia developed many new ways to improve their lives.
Yellow text is what i have my students take notes on and. On the page for sherdan, we find this admitted once again, since the phoenicians had prominent trading. Levantine cities, and nonphoenician cultures across the ancient world. The origin of lydian and greek coinage economics, yale. In the northwestern part of the fertile crescent lay phoenicia. The phoenicians and the west politics, colonies and trade. Lydians were actually people living in parts of western anatolia.
The city of jaffa is sometimes mentioned as the southern border. It had lots of natural resources, such as fertile soil and minerals, including gold. Whether you try to link sherdan to sidon or sardinia, you end up with the phoenicians. Politics, colonies and trade, by maria eugenia aubet. Hebrews, phoenicians and lydians handout packet by pointer. List of books and articles about phoenician history.