soc st. seafering traders ch3 3 assessment

SEAFERING TRADERSASSESSMENT

Social Studies

Chapter 3 – Lesson 3

TERMS AND NAMES

• Minoans: seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 BC.

Aegean Sea:

Body of water located at the Mediterranean Sea.

Knossos

• The Minoan capital city.

King Minos

• A king who owned a Minotaur.

Phoenicians

• Powerful seafaring people of Sowthwesst Asia, who around 1100 BC began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.

ACHIEVEMENTS

MINOANS PHOENICIANS

Traders City-states

Bull leapers Dye

Pottery Aphabet

2. Which of these achievements do you think was the most important? Why?

• Alphabet because of far reaching consequences.

3. What did the excavations at Knossos reveal about Minoan culture?

• It was an advanced, thriving or prosperous culture.

4. Where did the Phoenicians settle and trade?

• Around the Mediterranean.

5.Why did the Phoenicians develop a writing system?

• To keep business.

6. What might have caused the collapse of the Phoenician culture?

• Overpopulation, natural disaster, invaders.

7. What were some similarities between the Minoans and the Phoenicians in terms of trade?

• Both traded in the Mediterranean, exchanging goods and new ideas.

8. What words in Herodotus account of a voyage around Africa show doubt? Why?

• “Some may believe, though I do not” such a trip has never been done before.

9. Do you think it would made sense that the Phoenicians city states to cooperate instead of compete? Explain.

• Cooperation, by pooling resources for greater profitablility.

• Compete, by keeping traders on their toes, making them better merchants.