soc st. seafering traders ch3 3 assessment
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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.